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Land At Park Road Pontefract WF8 4PR

17/00177/OUTOutline ApplicationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 27 September 2017

Council decision: Application ApprovedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Outline planning application (including access) for up to 12,641sqm of floor space for use as Storage and Distribution (Use Class B8), General Industry (Use Class B2) and Light Industry (Use Class B1(c)) with ancillary offices.

Received
25 January 2017
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
13
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received25 Jan
  2. Validated25 Jan
  3. Consult.23 Feb
  4. Target26 Apr
  5. Decided27 Sep

Decided in 245 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land At Park Road Pontefract WF8 4PR. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 245 days, 27 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 4PR
Application type
Outline Application
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 January 2017
Consultation expiry
3 March 2017
Consultation start
2 February 2017
Consultation end
23 February 2017
Neighbour consultation start
12 July 2017
Neighbour consultation end
23 February 2017
Last date for comments
3 March 2017
Target decision date
26 April 2017
Committee meeting
20 July 2017
Decision issued
5 October 2017
Permission expires
5 October 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Bilfinger GVA First Floor City Point 29 King Street LEEDS LS1 2HL

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
10 February 2017
Advertisement expiry
3 March 2017
Site notice start
10 February 2017
Site notice end
3 March 2017

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-05762788
Documents
89

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2020
    3 Feb

    Application for certificate of proposed lawfulness relating to the proposed use of unit no.4 [granted outline…

    ApprovedCertificate Proposed Lawful Use or DevRelated20/00252/CPL
  2. 2017
    25 Jan

    Outline planning application (including access) for up to 12,641sqm of floor space for use as Storage and…

    This applicationApprovedOutline17/00177/OUT

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