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Land Off Westfield Grove Low Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7HF

17/00518/S7302S73 Planning ApplicationRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 12 October 2021

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Variation of condition 7 (surfacing/completion of surfacing) from permission 17/00518/S7301 (Variation to condition no.10 (surfacing / completion of surfacing) of permission 17/00518/OUT (residential development for the erection of 4 detached dwellings) (outline application for access and scale) (resubmission of application 15/01694/OUT) dated 15th December 2017) dated 19 March 2020

Received
24 June 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
7
Ward
Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton
  1. Received24 Jun
  2. Validated30 Jun
  3. Consult.5 Aug
  4. Target25 Aug
  5. Decided12 Oct

Decided in 104 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land Off Westfield Grove Low Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7HF. Wakefield has handled 436 applications of this type. This one was decided in 110 days, 8 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 3 other applications 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.

93% of amendment 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
S73 Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ackworth

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 June 2021
Consultation expiry
26 August 2021
Consultation start
15 July 2021
Consultation end
5 August 2021
Last date for comments
26 August 2021
Target decision date
25 August 2021
Permission expires
12 October 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Bradley Stankler Planning Hilltop Grange Court Leeds LS17 7TX

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
15 July 2021
Advertisement expiry
5 August 2021
Site notice start
5 August 2021
Site notice end
26 August 2021

Appeal

Appeal reference
22/00009/COND
Appeal result
Appeal Allowed subject to conditions

Appeal history

3293183
Allowed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 12 August 2022Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: Appeal Against Conditions

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09971436
Documents
20

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.

Source: Wakefield

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