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Prince Of Wales Colliery Park Road Pontefract WF8 4QB

16/02385/REMApproval of Reserved MattersApproved
Reserved matters

Approved on 16 December 2016

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Approval of reserved matters (appearance, landscaping, layout and scale) pursuant to outline planning permission 13/01144/OUT for Phase 4 of the development of the former Prince of Wales Colliery comprising the erection of 89 dwellings, associated car parking, infrastructure and landscaping.

Received
23 September 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received23 Sep
  2. Validated23 Sep
  3. Consult.20 Oct
  4. Target23 Dec
  5. Decided16 Dec

Decided in 84 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a new dwelling at Prince Of Wales Colliery Park Road Pontefract WF8 4QB. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 4 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 17 other applications 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 4QB
Application type
Approval of Reserved Matters
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
89

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 September 2016
Consultation expiry
28 October 2016
Consultation start
29 September 2016
Consultation end
20 October 2016
Neighbour consultation start
29 September 2016
Neighbour consultation end
20 October 2016
Last date for comments
28 October 2016
Target decision date
23 December 2016
Permission expires
16 December 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Barton Wilmore The Forum The Pearl New Bridge Street West Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8AQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
7 October 2016
Advertisement expiry
28 October 2016
Site notice start
7 October 2016
Site notice end
28 October 2016

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-05164657
Documents
123

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2016
    20 Dec

    Non material change to Planning Permission 16/02385/REM

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendment16/03133/NMC
  2. 2016
    23 Sep

    Approval of reserved matters (appearance, landscaping, layout and scale) pursuant to outline planning…

    This applicationApprovedReserved matters16/02385/REM

Planning history at this site

19 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2023
    22 Dec

    Discharge of conditions 3 (Highway Works), 6 (POS), 25 (Mud on Highway), 26 (Construction worker parking), 29…

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions17/02081/SUB21
  2. 2021
    24 Sep

    Discharge of conditions 3 (Highway works), 26 (Mud on highway), 27 (Construction worker parking), 35…

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions17/02081/SUB17
  3. 2021
    11 May

    Discharge of conditions 32 (Foul and surface water drainage) and 33 (temporary surface water drainage) in…

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions17/02081/SUB16
  4. 2021
    15 Apr

    Application to discharge condition 36 of Phase 5a (Sound attenuation measures) from approved application…

    Conditions part DischargedDischarge of conditions17/02081/SUB12
  5. 2021
    5 Mar

    Approval of reserved matters pursuant to application ref: 17/02081/OUT

    ApprovedReserved matters17/02081/REM01
  6. 2019
    24 Jun

    Application to part- discharge details reserved by condition under Planning Permision 17/02081/OUT

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions17/02081/SUB05

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