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5-9 Wood Street Wakefield WF1 2EL

18/01593/S7302S73 Planning ApplicationAwaiting decision
Discharge / amendments
Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Variation of Condition 2 (Approved Plans) and Condition 12 (Materials) of application 18/01593/FUL, dated 06.12.18 [which granted full planning permission for a change of use of ground floor retail unit at 7 Wood Street into a mixed A3 (Food and Drink) and A4 (Drinking Establishment) use demolition of existing roof to rear building and construction of a second floor extension to form 2no. apartments; together with associated changes to external appearance] to permit amendments to openings and materials.

Received
8 August 2025
Decision due
22 October 2025
Public comments
2
Ward
Wakefield North
Agent
Paddocks Architecture
  1. Received8 Aug
  2. Validated27 Aug
  3. Consult.17 Mar
  4. Target22 Oct
  5. Decided

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Comments close on 17 March.

Comment on the council's siteDocuments (4)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 5-9 Wood Street Wakefield WF1 2EL. Wakefield has handled 436 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 8 August 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in a conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across Wakefield North. We hold 467 applications in total for the WF1 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
WF1 2EL
Application type
S73 Planning Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 August 2025
Consultation expiry
17 March 2026
Consultation start
3 March 2026
Consultation end
17 March 2026
Last date for comments
17 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Paddocks Architecture
Agent address
6 Sycamore Croft Skelmanthorpe Huddersfield HD8 9UX

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
11 September 2025
Advertisement expiry
2 October 2025
Site notice start
2 September 2025
Site notice end
23 September 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14198785
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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.

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