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Went Vale Farm Rigg Lane Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7PP

15/00787/CPECertificate Existing Lawful Use or DevRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 4 September 2015

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to determine whether the use of part of an agricultural building as a dwellinghouse (C3) constitutes lawful development

Received
31 March 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton
  1. Received31 Mar
  2. Validated21 Apr
  3. Consult.20 May
  4. Target16 Jun
  5. Decided4 Sep

Decided in 136 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Went Vale Farm Rigg Lane Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7PP. Wakefield has handled 436 applications of this type. This one was decided in 157 days, 14 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton. We hold 442 applications in total for the WF7 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
WF7 7PP
Application type
Certificate Existing Lawful Use or Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ackworth

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 April 2015
Consultation expiry
20 May 2015
Consultation start
29 April 2015
Consultation end
20 May 2015
Neighbour consultation start
29 April 2015
Neighbour consultation end
20 May 2015
Last date for comments
20 May 2015
Target decision date
16 June 2015
Permission expires
4 September 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
IOP Consulting Unit 41 Batley Enterprise Centre 513 Bradford Road Batley West Yorkshire WF17 8LL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04080782
Documents
6

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
  • Green belt: Wakefield

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, 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.

© 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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