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29 Ropergate Pontefract WF8 1LG

15/00406/COUChange of Use Prior NotificationWithdrawn
Prior approval

Withdrawn on 1 April 2015

Council decision: Application Withdrawn

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Proposal

Conversion of office into 18 apartments

Received
16 February 2015
Public comments
3
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received16 Feb
  2. Validated23 Feb
  3. Consult.16 Mar
  4. Target10 Apr
  5. Decided1 Apr

Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 29 Ropergate Pontefract WF8 1LG. Wakefield has handled 436 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 44 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in a conservation area, with 5 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.

93% of amendment 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 1LG
Application type
Change of Use Prior Notification
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
18

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 February 2015
Consultation expiry
27 March 2015
Consultation start
23 February 2015
Consultation end
16 March 2015
Last date for comments
27 March 2015
Target decision date
10 April 2015
Permission expires
1 April 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Craven Design Partnership Ribble Court Mead Way Shuttleworth Mead Business Park Padiham Burnley Lancashire BB12 7NG

Planning decision

Statutory period
46 days

Publicity

Site notice start
6 March 2015
Site notice end
27 March 2015

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2016
    9 Mar

    Conversion of exisitng vacant office suites to 14.no apartments

    RefusedB1 to C316/00609/COUO

Source: Wakefield

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