12 & 14 Waterfall Fold Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 1SZ
Approved on 8 February 2016
Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from wasteland to garden curtilage (retrospective)
- Received
- 18 June 2015
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Pontefract North
- ReceivedReceived18 Jun
- ValidatedValidated14 Dec
- Consult.Consultation6 Jan
- TargetTarget Date8 Feb
- DecidedDecided8 Feb
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 12 & 14 Waterfall Fold Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 1SZ. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 235 days, 26 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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 1SZ
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 14 December 2015
- Consultation expiry
- 5 February 2016
- Consultation start
- 16 December 2015
- Consultation end
- 6 January 2016
- Neighbour consultation start
- 16 December 2015
- Neighbour consultation end
- 6 January 2016
- Last date for comments
- 5 February 2016
- Target decision date
- 8 February 2016
- Permission expires
- 8 February 2019
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- M Ward Architectural
- Agent address
- 94 Ferrybridge Road Castleford WF10 4JR
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 1 January 2016
- Advertisement expiry
- 22 January 2016
- Site notice start
- 15 January 2016
- Site notice end
- 5 February 2016
Site constraints
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.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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