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Ackworth Road/Hardwick Road (Junction Of) Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 3QH

14/02142/TELTelecommunications NotificationApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 18 November 2014

Council decision: Prior Approval Required and GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Upgrade of existing equipment- 12.2m streetworks tower and associated ground based equipment

Received
25 September 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontefract South
  1. Received25 Sep
  2. Validated25 Sep
  3. Consult.20 Oct
  4. Target19 Nov
  5. Decided18 Nov

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Ackworth Road/Hardwick Road (Junction Of) Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 3QH. Wakefield has handled 35 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Pontefract South. We hold 2,011 applications in total for the WF8 postcode area.

91% of all 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 3QH
Application type
Telecommunications Notification
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 September 2014
Consultation expiry
31 October 2014
Consultation start
29 September 2014
Consultation end
20 October 2014
Neighbour consultation start
8 October 2014
Neighbour consultation end
29 October 2014
Last date for comments
31 October 2014
Target decision date
19 November 2014
Decision issued
19 November 2014
Permission expires
19 November 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO: Damian Hosker The Ponderosa Scotland Lane Horsforth Leeds LS18 5SF

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
10 October 2014
Site notice end
31 October 2014

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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 (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.

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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