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Barnsley Road (Opp Library) South Elmsall Pontefract

15/01056/TELTelecommunications NotificationApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 3 August 2015

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of 15 metre high Phase 4 Streetworks telecommunications Tower, transmission dish and four equipment cabinets (re-submission of approved application 14/02238/TEL)

Received
28 April 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
South Elmsall And South Kirkby
  1. Received28 Apr
  2. Validated12 May
  3. Consult.11 Jun
  4. Target6 Jul
  5. Decided3 Aug

Decided in 83 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Barnsley Road (Opp Library) South Elmsall Pontefract. Wakefield has handled 35 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 6 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. 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 18 applications across South Elmsall And South Kirkby.

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

Application type
Telecommunications Notification
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 May 2015
Consultation expiry
31 July 2015
Consultation end
11 June 2015
Neighbour consultation start
21 May 2015
Neighbour consultation end
11 June 2015
Last date for comments
31 July 2015
Target decision date
6 July 2015
Permission expires
3 August 2020

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 July 2015
Site notice end
31 July 2015

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
6

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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2015
    28 Apr

    Installation of 15 metre high Phase 4 Streetworks telecommunications Tower, transmission dish and four…

    This applicationApprovedTelecoms15/01056/TEL
  2. 2014
    8 Oct

    Installation of 15 metre high Phase 4 Streetworks telecommunications Tower, transmission dish and three…

    ApprovedTelecommunications NotificationPart of14/02238/TEL

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