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The Liquorice Bush Public House 8 Market Place Pontefract WF8 1AX

15/01620/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 24 November 2015

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Outdoor seating area

Received
6 July 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received6 Jul
  2. Validated17 Jul
  3. Consult.11 Nov
  4. Target11 Sep
  5. Decided24 Nov

Decided in 130 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at The Liquorice Bush Public House 8 Market Place Pontefract WF8 1AX. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 141 days, 12 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. 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 1AX
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 July 2015
Consultation expiry
20 November 2015
Consultation start
21 October 2015
Consultation end
11 November 2015
Last date for comments
20 November 2015
Target decision date
11 September 2015
Permission expires
24 November 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Newlands Cutsyke Road Featherstone Wakefield West Yorkshire (Met County) WF7 6BD United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
14 August 2015
Advertisement expiry
4 September 2015
Site notice start
30 October 2015
Site notice end
20 November 2015

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-04324623
Comments
0
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

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