Moorthorpe Hotel 137 Barnsley Road South Elmsall Pontefract WF9 2AA
Approved on 4 April 2019
Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Proposed change of use of unit 1 to launderette sui generis (revised proposal).
- Received
- 31 August 2018
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Ward
- South Elmsall And South Kirkby
- ReceivedReceived31 Aug
- ValidatedValidated17 Oct
- Consult.Consultation27 Feb
- TargetTarget Date12 Dec
- DecidedDecided4 Apr
Decided in 169 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Moorthorpe Hotel 137 Barnsley Road South Elmsall Pontefract WF9 2AA. Wakefield has handled 3,736 applications of this type. This one was decided in 216 days, 23 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across South Elmsall And South Kirkby. We hold 1,144 applications in total for the WF9 postcode area.
93% of full 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
- WF9 2AA
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- South Kirkby
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 October 2018
- Consultation expiry
- 1 March 2019
- Consultation start
- 13 February 2019
- Consultation end
- 27 February 2019
- Last date for comments
- 1 March 2019
- Target decision date
- 12 December 2018
- Decision issued
- 8 April 2019
- Permission expires
- 8 April 2022
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- KMS Cconsultants & Associates Ltd 14 Granton Road Leeds LS7 3LZ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 8 February 2019
- Site notice end
- 1 March 2019
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-07187290
- Documents
- 43
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
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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