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Pontefract Dispensary & Hermitage Southgate Pontefract West Yorkshire

14/01949/FULFull ApplicationDecided
Full

Decided on 6 February 2015

Council decision: Split Decision on ApplicationDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of parts of the Pontefract Dispensary and Hermitage buildings including Laundry building. Installation of new doors and windows and infill to external walls of building to be retained and re-grading of external surface levels

Received
3 September 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received3 Sep
  2. Validated3 Sep
  3. Consult.17 Oct
  4. Target29 Oct
  5. Decided6 Feb

Decided in 156 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Pontefract Dispensary & Hermitage Southgate Pontefract West Yorkshire. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Pontefract North.

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

Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 September 2014
Consultation expiry
17 October 2014
Consultation start
26 September 2014
Consultation end
17 October 2014
Neighbour consultation start
12 September 2014
Neighbour consultation end
3 October 2014
Last date for comments
17 October 2014
Target decision date
29 October 2014
Permission expires
6 February 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO: Mr Philip Harvey 4 Elmwood Street Harrogate North Yorkshire HG1 5EU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
19 September 2014
Advertisement expiry
10 October 2014
Site notice start
19 September 2014
Site notice end
10 October 2014

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-03643610
Comments
0
Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Listed building: Grade I: The HermitageOn or next to this site
  • Heritage at Risk Register: The Hermitage, Southgate, PontefractNext to the site
  • Brownfield land register: Former Pontefract General Infirmary, PontefractRegister site at or near this address · +1 more

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 (18)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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 and heritage coasts.

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

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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2015
    13 Feb

    Discharge of conditions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 from application 14/01949/FUL

    PendingDischarge of conditions14/01949/SUB01
  2. 2014
    3 Sep

    Demolition of parts of the Pontefract Dispensary and Hermitage buildings including Laundry building…

    This applicationSplit Decision on ApplicationFull14/01949/FUL

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