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22 & 24 Beastfair Pontefract WF8 1AW

13/03066/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 14 January 2014

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from Use Class A1 (shops) to Use Class A2 (estate agency) incorporating internal alterations to no.22 and no.24.

Received
31 October 2013
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received31 Oct
  2. Validated6 Nov
  3. Consult.27 Nov
  4. Target1 Jan
  5. Decided14 Jan

Decided in 69 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 22 & 24 Beastfair Pontefract WF8 1AW. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 3 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 17 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Pontefract North. We hold 2,011 applications in total for the WF8 postcode area.

94% of full applications at Wakefield Metropolitan District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WF8 1AW
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 November 2013
Consultation expiry
13 December 2013
Consultation start
6 November 2013
Consultation end
27 November 2013
Last date for comments
13 December 2013
Target decision date
1 January 2014
Permission expires
14 January 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent address
27 Melbourne Street Morley Leeds West Yorkshire LS27 8BG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
22 November 2013
Advertisement expiry
13 December 2013
Site notice start
22 November 2013
Site notice end
13 December 2013

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas and Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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Associated applications

  1. 2013
    31 Oct

    Change of use from Use Class A1 (shops) to Use Class A2 (estate agency) incorporating internal alterations to…

    This applicationApprovedFull13/03066/FUL
  2. 2013
    31 Oct

    Change of use from Use Class A1 (shops) to Use Class A2 (estate agency) incorporating internal alterations to…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside13/03067/LBC

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2014
    15 Sep

    Non illuminated signage scheme

    ApprovedAdvertisement consent14/02064/ADV

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