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West Yorkshire Accident Repair Centre Middle Oxford Street Castleford WF10 5DF

17/00977/OUTOutline ApplicationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 5 January 2018

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing vehicle repair centre and erection of new vehicle repair centre and approximately 26 residential dwellings with all matters reserved except access.

Received
11 April 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
11
Ward
Altofts And Whitwood
Agent
Edward Architecture
  1. Received11 Apr
  2. Validated11 Apr
  3. Consult.10 May
  4. Target11 Jul
  5. Decided5 Jan

Decided in 269 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at West Yorkshire Accident Repair Centre Middle Oxford Street Castleford WF10 5DF. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 269 days, 30 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 36 applications across Altofts And Whitwood. We hold 760 applications in total for the WF10 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
WF10 5DF
Application type
Outline Application
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
26

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 April 2017
Consultation expiry
1 December 2017
Consultation start
19 April 2017
Consultation end
10 May 2017
Neighbour consultation start
19 April 2017
Neighbour consultation end
10 May 2017
Last date for comments
1 December 2017
Target decision date
11 July 2017
Decision issued
8 January 2018
Permission expires
8 January 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
Edward Architecture
Agent address
2 Riverside Way, Whitehall Waterfront Whitehall Road, Leeds LS1 4EH United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
28 April 2017
Advertisement expiry
19 May 2017
Site notice start
17 November 2017
Site notice end
1 December 2017

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-05965821
Documents
41

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: WY Accident Repair Centre, CastlefordRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (20)

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 and heritage coasts.

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.

Source: Wakefield

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