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29 Market Place Pontefract WF8 1AG

16/01845/COUOB1 to C3Withdrawn

Withdrawn on 22 September 2016

Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of the upper floors from office to residential.

Received
29 July 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received29 Jul
  2. Validated29 Jul
  3. Consult.29 Aug
  4. Target23 Sep
  5. Decided22 Sep

Decided in 55 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 29 Market Place Pontefract WF8 1AG. Wakefield has handled 8,255 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 55 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in a conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. 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.

Application details

Postcode
WF8 1AG
Application type
B1 to C3
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 July 2016
Consultation expiry
2 September 2016
Consultation start
8 August 2016
Consultation end
29 August 2016
Last date for comments
2 September 2016
Target decision date
23 September 2016
Permission expires
22 September 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
5 Courtyard 31 Pontefract Road Normanton Industrial Estate Normanton WF6 1JU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
12 August 2016
Advertisement expiry
2 September 2016
Site notice start
12 August 2016
Site notice end
2 September 2016

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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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