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9 Upper Ash Grove (Land To The Rear) South Elmsall Pontefract WF9 2BY

19/02855/FULFull ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 11 April 2020

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Residential development for 1 no. dwelling including demolition of existing garage

Received
18 December 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
7
Ward
South Elmsall And South Kirkby
  1. Received18 Dec
  2. Validated2 Jan
  3. Consult.27 Jan
  4. Target27 Feb
  5. Decided11 Apr

Decided in 100 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 9 Upper Ash Grove (Land To The Rear) South Elmsall Pontefract WF9 2BY. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 115 days, 8 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. 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.

94% 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 2BY
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
South Elmsall

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 January 2020
Consultation expiry
27 January 2020
Consultation start
6 January 2020
Consultation end
27 January 2020
Neighbour consultation start
3 January 2020
Neighbour consultation end
24 January 2020
Last date for comments
27 January 2020
Target decision date
27 February 2020
Decision issued
14 April 2020
Permission expires
14 April 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal history

3257116
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 28 January 2021Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

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