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18 Providence Green Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 1ST

17/00511/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 19 June 2017

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from unmaintained land to domestic curtilage and erection of boundary fence (retrospective)

Received
23 February 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received23 Feb
  2. Validated7 Mar
  3. Consult.4 Apr
  4. Target2 May
  5. Decided19 Jun

Decided in 104 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 18 Providence Green Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 1ST. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 116 days, 9 weeks longer 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. We hold 2,011 applications in total for the WF8 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
WF8 1ST
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 March 2017
Consultation expiry
16 June 2017
Consultation start
14 March 2017
Consultation end
4 April 2017
Neighbour consultation start
14 March 2017
Neighbour consultation end
4 April 2017
Last date for comments
16 June 2017
Target decision date
2 May 2017
Permission expires
19 June 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
26 May 2017
Advertisement expiry
16 June 2017
Site notice start
26 May 2017
Site notice end
16 June 2017

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-05786568
Documents
21

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

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.

Source: Wakefield

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