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Hampsons Plants Denby Dale Road Durkar Wakefield WF4 3AZ

15/02873/S7301Section 73 ApplicationApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 20 December 2023

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Variation of condition 7 (fence retention) of approved application 15/02873/FUL dated 4.3.2016 [Change of use of former landscape gardeners yard to car park and change a dwellinghouse to offices (Both for use in association with adjacent garden centre)] to re-open the vehicular access and use as an exit only from the existing car park.

Received
17 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Wakefield Rural
  1. Received17 Jul
  2. Validated17 Jul
  3. Consult.21 Dec
  4. Target11 Sep
  5. Decided20 Dec

Decided in 156 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Hampsons Plants Denby Dale Road Durkar Wakefield WF4 3AZ. Wakefield has handled 436 applications of this type. This one was decided in 156 days, 14 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Wakefield Rural. We hold 1,338 applications in total for the WF4 postcode area.

93% of amendment 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
WF4 3AZ
Application type
Section 73 Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Crigglestone

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 July 2023
Consultation expiry
21 December 2023
Consultation start
7 December 2023
Consultation end
21 December 2023
Last date for comments
21 December 2023
Target decision date
11 September 2023
Permission expires
20 December 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Doug Jennings Planning Services 7 Kingtree Avenue Cottingham HU16 4DS

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
26 July 2023
Site notice end
16 August 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12314318
Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 2: Medium 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.

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.

Source: Wakefield

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