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26 Market Place Pontefract WF8 1AT

14/02591/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 21 January 2015

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from A1 (retail) to A2 (residential estate agency, sales, lettings and management)

Received
24 November 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received24 Nov
  2. Validated3 Dec
  3. Consult.31 Dec
  4. Target28 Jan
  5. Decided21 Jan

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 26 Market Place Pontefract WF8 1AT. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days. The site is in a conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications 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 1AT
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 December 2014
Consultation expiry
16 January 2015
Consultation start
10 December 2014
Consultation end
31 December 2014
Last date for comments
16 January 2015
Target decision date
28 January 2015
Permission expires
21 January 2018

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
26 December 2014
Advertisement expiry
16 January 2015
Site notice start
26 December 2014
Site notice end
16 January 2015

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
4

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.

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.

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