Former Prince Of Wales Colliery Park Road Pontefract WF8 4QB

17/02081/SUB08Discharge of Conditions RequestApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 3 March 2021

Council decision: Conditions DischargedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Application to part -discharge Condition 50 - Renewable Energy under planning permission 17/02081/OUT Section 73 Variation of conditions to planning permission 13/01144/OUT( etc) )for Phase 6a ( Avant) Prince of Wales site, Park Road, Pontefract.

Received: 16 October 2019
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
Ward: Pontefract North

ReceivedReceived16 Oct
ValidatedValidated16 Oct
Consult.Consultation25 Nov
TargetTarget Date11 Dec
DecidedDecided3 Mar

Decided in 504 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Former Prince Of Wales Colliery Park Road Pontefract WF8 4QB. Wakefield has handled 1,090 applications of this type. This one was decided in 504 days, 64 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 5 other applications 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.

99% of conditions 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 4QB
Application type: Discharge of Conditions Request
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 16 October 2019
Consultation expiry: 25 November 2019
Consultation start: 4 November 2019
Consultation end: 25 November 2019
Last date for comments: 25 November 2019
Target decision date: 11 December 2019
Decision issued: 16 March 2021
Permission expires: 16 March 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-08179182
Comments: 0
Documents: 8

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.

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3 other applications at this property, newest first.

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