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Castleford Growth Corridor Savile Road, Aire Street, Lock Lane, Bridge Street And Wheldon Road Castleford

20/00055/EIASOEIA Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 26 February 2020

Council decision: EIA Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Request for an EIA Screening Opinion - Castleford Growth Corridor Scheme comprising: Carriageway widening at Aire Street, improvements to the Lock Lane and Savile Road roundabouts, signal controlled junction improvement, improved crossing facilities for pedestrians and the provision of a shared footway/cycleway along the length of the growth corridor

Received
11 December 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Castleford Central And Glasshoughton
  1. Received11 Dec
  2. Validated24 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target14 Feb
  5. Decided26 Feb

Decided in 33 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Castleford Growth Corridor Savile Road, Aire Street, Lock Lane, Bridge Street And Wheldon Road Castleford. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 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 34 applications across Castleford Central And Glasshoughton.

95% of outline 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

Application type
EIA Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 January 2020
Target decision date
14 February 2020
Permission expires
26 February 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High 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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

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    30 Mar

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