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Sundial House Dark Lane Pontefract WF8 4HU

14/00196/TCANotification of Tree Works in Cons. AreaApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 3 March 2014

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 Silver Birch remove shootsT2 Maple to evenly crown thin by 10%T3 Beech to evenly crown thin by 5% remove stubs and drawback 2 lowest limbs by 1.5m maximumT4 Sycamore to evenly crown thin by 5% maximumT6 Silver birch to removeT7 Sycamore to evenly crown thin by 5% maximumT8-T9 Silver birch to drawbackT10 Cherry to evenly crown thin by 5% T12 -T17 Sycamore to evenly crown thin by 5% maximumT13 Yew to shapeT14 Hawthorn to drawback

Received
27 January 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received27 Jan
  2. Validated27 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target10 Mar
  5. Decided3 Mar

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Sundial House Dark Lane Pontefract WF8 4HU. Wakefield has handled 677 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 3 weeks quicker than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

54% of trees 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 4HU
Application type
Notification of Tree Works in Cons. Area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 January 2014
Target decision date
10 March 2014
Decision issued
4 March 2014

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3

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, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Wakefield

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