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Thomas Fawcett And Sons Limited Eastfield Lane Castleford WF10 4LE

19/02241/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 12 May 2020

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Change of use from adopted highway to B1 use and erection of electrically operated sliding gate

Received
3 October 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Castleford Central And Glasshoughton
Agent
DMS Architecture
  1. Received3 Oct
  2. Validated16 Oct
  3. Consult.27 Dec
  4. Target11 Dec
  5. Decided12 May

Decided in 209 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Thomas Fawcett And Sons Limited Eastfield Lane Castleford WF10 4LE. Wakefield has handled 3,736 applications of this type. This one was decided in 222 days, 24 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Castleford Central And Glasshoughton. We hold 764 applications in total for the WF10 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
WF10 4LE
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Castleford

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 October 2019
Consultation expiry
27 December 2019
Consultation start
20 December 2019
Consultation end
27 December 2019
Last date for comments
27 December 2019
Target decision date
11 December 2019
Decision issued
13 May 2020
Permission expires
13 May 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
DMS Architecture
Agent address
DMS Architecture The Old Police Station High Street Normanton WF6 2AL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
1 November 2019
Site notice end
22 November 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08175876
Documents
13

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Wakefield

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