Ackworth School Pontefract Road Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7LT
Approved on 24 January 2018
Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Demolition of existing outbuildings
- Received
- 13 November 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton
- ReceivedReceived13 Nov
- ValidatedValidated13 Nov
- Consult.Consultation13 Dec
- TargetTarget Date8 Jan
- DecidedDecided24 Jan
Decided in 72 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a heritage application for demolition at Ackworth School Pontefract Road Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7LT. Wakefield has handled 157 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 2 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 5 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.
100% of heritage 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 7LT
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Ackworth
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 November 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 29 December 2017
- Consultation start
- 22 November 2017
- Consultation end
- 13 December 2017
- Last date for comments
- 29 December 2017
- Target decision date
- 8 January 2018
- Permission expires
- 24 January 2021
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Plot 74 Architecture Ltd 51 Tulyar Court Gilstead Bingley BD16 3ND
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 8 December 2017
- Advertisement expiry
- 29 December 2017
- Site notice start
- 8 December 2017
- Site notice end
- 29 December 2017
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Green belt: Wakefield
- 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, 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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Planning history at this site
5 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202018 Nov
Removal of 5no. trees (Hawthorn)
ApprovedNotification of Tree Works in Cons. Area20/02539/TCA - 201710 Feb
To remove a number of Sycamore, Ash and Hawthorn self set trees
ApprovedNotification of Tree Works in Cons. Area17/00373/TCA - 201230 Jan
C1-C3 Conifer fell A1 Ash fell
ApprovedTree Preservation Order Consent12/00310/TPO - 20115 Dec
T1 Lime fell T2 Sycamore (2 trees) fell T3 Lime fell T4 Lime fell T5 Sycamore fell
RefusedTree Preservation Order Consent11/02502/TPO - 201025 Feb
T0030 Cherry to remove lower limbT0029 Pear to evenly crown thin by 10% drawback from telephone lines by 1.5m…
ApprovedNotification of Tree Works in Cons. Area10/00383/TCA
Source: Wakefield
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