Brown Cow Hotel Pontefract Road Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7EL
Approved on 31 July 2019
Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Illuminated and non illuminated signage scheme (retrospective)
- Received
- 17 May 2019
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton
- ReceivedReceived17 May
- ValidatedValidated11 Jun
- Consult.Consultation17 Jul
- TargetTarget Date6 Aug
- DecidedDecided31 Jul
Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an advertising consent application at Brown Cow Hotel Pontefract Road Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7EL. Wakefield has handled 281 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 3 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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.
94% of advertising 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 7EL
- Application type
- Application to Display Adverts
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Ackworth
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 June 2019
- Consultation expiry
- 19 July 2019
- Consultation start
- 12 June 2019
- Consultation end
- 17 July 2019
- Last date for comments
- 19 July 2019
- Target decision date
- 6 August 2019
- Decision issued
- 1 August 2019
- Permission expires
- 1 August 2022
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Insignia Signs
- Agent address
- Unit D Confederation Park Low Fields Way Leeds LS12 6HQ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 28 June 2019
- Advertisement expiry
- 19 July 2019
- Site notice start
- 28 June 2019
- Site notice end
- 19 July 2019
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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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