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Pontefract General Infirmary Friarwood Lane Pontefract WF8 1PL

15/01651/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 27 August 2015

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Variation of condition 19 of application 06/99/11487/BV relating to car parking provision

Received
3 July 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received3 Jul
  2. Validated3 Jul
  3. Consult.5 Aug
  4. Target28 Aug
  5. Decided27 Aug

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Pontefract General Infirmary Friarwood Lane Pontefract WF8 1PL. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 6 other applications 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 1PL
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 July 2015
Consultation expiry
21 August 2015
Consultation start
15 July 2015
Consultation end
5 August 2015
Last date for comments
21 August 2015
Target decision date
28 August 2015
Permission expires
27 August 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Sanderson House Jubilee Way Grange Moor Huddersfield West Yorkshire WF4 4TD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
31 July 2015
Advertisement expiry
21 August 2015
Site notice start
31 July 2015
Site notice end
21 August 2015

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
4

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
  • Listed building: Grade I: The HermitageOn or next to this site
  • Heritage at Risk Register: The Hermitage, Southgate, PontefractNext to the site
  • Brownfield land register: Former Pontefract General Infirmary, PontefractRegister site at or near this address · +1 more

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 (18)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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 and heritage coasts.

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.

Planning history at this site

6 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2016
    7 Jul

    Discharge condition 11 (Verification Report) from approved application 15/01463/FUL

    Conditions part DischargedDischarge of conditions15/01463/SUB03
  2. 2016
    5 Apr

    Non-material change to approved application 15/01463/FUL

    ApprovedNon-material amendment16/00819/NMC
  3. 2016
    22 Feb

    Discharge of conditions 8 (Temporary Drainage) and 26 (Lighting) from approved application 15/01463/FUL

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions15/01463/SUB02
  4. 2016
    18 Jan

    Discharge of conditions 3 (Highways), 5, 6 and 9 (Drainage), 10 (Contamination), 15 (Noise), 16 (Dust), 17…

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions15/01463/SUB01
  5. 2015
    1 Sep

    Demolition of existing Wards 1, 2 & 3 building to north side of Friarwood Lane

    ApprovedDemolition Notification15/02098/DEM
  6. 2014
    4 Sep

    Demolition of buildings to the south of Friarwood Lane

    ApprovedDemolition Notification14/01959/DEM

Source: Wakefield

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