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Market Place, Gillygate, Ropergate And Beastfair Pontefract Market Conservation Area Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8

16/02030/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 7 October 2016

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

New and replacement electrical infrastructure works, fixings on buildings within Pontefract Market Place for seasonal illuminations

Received
16 August 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received16 Aug
  2. Validated5 Sep
  3. Consult.26 Sep
  4. Target31 Oct
  5. Decided7 Oct

Decided in 32 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Market Place, Gillygate, Ropergate And Beastfair Pontefract Market Conservation Area Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8. Wakefield has handled 157 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 4 days quicker than Wakefield's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Pontefract North.

100% of heritage 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

Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 September 2016
Consultation expiry
30 September 2016
Consultation start
5 September 2016
Consultation end
26 September 2016
Neighbour consultation start
5 September 2016
Neighbour consultation end
26 September 2016
Last date for comments
30 September 2016
Target decision date
31 October 2016
Permission expires
7 October 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
9 September 2016
Advertisement expiry
30 September 2016
Site notice start
9 September 2016
Site notice end
30 September 2016

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
47

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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.

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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.

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