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Highfield House Love Lane Castleford WF10 5RT

16/01662/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 9 November 2016

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing Office building on site (Highfield House) and construction of new building to provide a seven bedroomed Education and Care facility (use class C2) together with associated landscape works

Received
7 July 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Altofts And Whitwood
  1. Received7 Jul
  2. Validated4 Aug
  3. Consult.31 Aug
  4. Target29 Sep
  5. Decided9 Nov

Decided in 97 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Highfield House Love Lane Castleford WF10 5RT. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 125 days, 10 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 7 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Altofts And Whitwood. We hold 760 applications in total for the WF10 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
WF10 5RT
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 August 2016
Consultation expiry
9 September 2016
Consultation start
10 August 2016
Consultation end
31 August 2016
Last date for comments
9 September 2016
Target decision date
29 September 2016
Decision issued
10 November 2016
Permission expires
10 November 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO: Mr David Shoreman 3A Princess Street Manchester M1 6HS

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
19 August 2016
Site notice end
9 September 2016

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-05301486
Documents
14

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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© 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

5 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2018
    11 Jun

    Discharge of condition 6 (Verification report) from approved application 17/01697/FUL

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions17/01697/SUB06
  2. 2018
    19 Jan

    Discharge of condition 15 (Boundaries) from approved application 17/01697/FUL

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions17/01697/SUB05
  3. 2017
    18 Dec

    Discharge of condition 14 (Bin Storage) from approved application 17/01697/FUL

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions17/01697/SUB04
  4. 2017
    14 Sep

    Discharge of condition 12 (Materials) with amendment to roof materials previously approved under application…

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions17/01697/SUB02
  5. 2017
    14 Aug

    Discharge of condition 5 (Remediation), 8 (Land Stability) from approved application 17/01697/FUL

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions17/01697/SUB01

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