Yorkshire Sculpture Park West Bretton Wakefield WF4 4LG
Proposal
New visitor centre and associated landscaping. Refurbishment of existing kiosk outbuilding- Upgrade to existing car park to suit DDA access requirements
- Received
- 21 August 2015
- Decided
- 8 March 2016 · Application Approved
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 11
- Ward
- Wakefield Rural
- ReceivedSubmitted21 Aug
- ValidatedValidated24 Aug
- Consult.Consultation17 Feb
- TargetTarget Date19 Oct
- DecidedDecided8 Mar
Decided in 197 days (council typically 56)
This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Yorkshire Sculpture Park West Bretton Wakefield WF4 4LG. Wakefield has handled 3,784 applications of this type and approves 89% of them, typically deciding them in 57 days. This one was decided in 200 days, 20 weeks longer than Wakefield's median. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 54 applications across Wakefield Rural. We hold 1,315 applications in total for the WF4 postcode area.
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Planning constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Green belt: Wakefield
- Local nature reserve: Bretton Country Park
- 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 (18)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
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