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Westfield Grove (Land Off) Low Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7HF

17/00518/OUTOutline ApplicationRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 15 May 2017

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Residential development for the erection of 4 detached dwellings (outline application for access and scale) (resubmission of application 15/01694/OUT)

Received
23 February 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
34
Ward
Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton
  1. Received23 Feb
  2. Validated27 Feb
  3. Consult.22 Mar
  4. Target24 Apr
  5. Decided15 May

Decided in 77 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a new dwelling at Westfield Grove (Land Off) Low Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7HF. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 81 days, 4 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton. We hold 442 applications in total for the WF7 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
WF7 7HF
Application type
Outline Application
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Ackworth

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 February 2017
Consultation expiry
31 March 2017
Consultation start
1 March 2017
Consultation end
22 March 2017
Neighbour consultation start
1 March 2017
Neighbour consultation end
22 March 2017
Last date for comments
31 March 2017
Target decision date
24 April 2017
Permission expires
15 May 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Parkhill Studio Parkhill Walton Road Wetherby LS22 5DZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
10 March 2017
Advertisement expiry
31 March 2017
Site notice start
10 March 2017
Site notice end
31 March 2017

Appeal

Appeal result
Appeal Allowed subject to conditions

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-05787591
Documents
122

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2021
    24 Jun

    Variation of condition 7 (surfacing/completion of surfacing) from permission 17/00518/S7301

    RefusedVariation of conditions (s73)17/00518/S7302
  2. 2020
    29 Sep

    Discharge of conditon 8 (Foul and surface water drainage) from approved application 17/00518/OUT

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions17/00518/SUB02
  3. 2020
    24 Jan

    Variation to condition no.10 (surfacing / completion of surfacing) of permission 17/00518/OUT

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)17/00518/S7301
  4. 2019
    7 Mar

    Discharge of conditions 5 (Construction method statement), 6 (Additional impact upon the watercourse), 7…

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions17/00518/SUB01
  5. 2018
    12 Dec

    Reserved matters application pursuant to 17/00518/OUT

    ApprovedReserved mattersRelated18/02823/REM
  6. 2017
    23 Feb

    Residential development for the erection of 4 detached dwellings (outline application for access and scale)…

    This applicationRefusedOutline17/00518/OUT

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