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23 Park Lane Pontefract WF8 4QH

16/01463/OUTOutline ApplicationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 12 April 2017

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed development of 4no dwellings with associated access from Park Lane

Received
13 June 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
13
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received13 Jun
  2. Validated5 Aug
  3. Consult.30 Nov
  4. Target30 Sep
  5. Decided12 Apr

Decided in 250 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 23 Park Lane Pontefract WF8 4QH. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 303 days, 35 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. 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.

95% of outline 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 4QH
Application type
Outline Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 August 2016
Consultation expiry
15 March 2017
Consultation start
9 November 2016
Consultation end
30 November 2016
Neighbour consultation start
22 February 2017
Neighbour consultation end
15 March 2017
Last date for comments
15 March 2017
Target decision date
30 September 2016
Decision issued
13 April 2017
Permission expires
13 April 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Bungalow Byram Park Road Byram Knottingley Yorkshire WF11 9DZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
18 November 2016
Site notice end
9 December 2016

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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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