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Unit 4 Park Road Retail Park Park Road Pontefract WF8 4PR

20/00252/CPLCertificate Proposed Lawful Use or DevApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 16 March 2020

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for certificate of proposed lawfulness relating to the proposed use of unit no.4 [granted outline planning permission by virtue of planning application 17/00177/OUT for up to 12,641sqm of floor space for use as Storage and Distribution (Use Class B8), General Industry (Use Class B2) and Light Industry (Use Class B1(c)) with ancillary offices on 5th October 2017)] to be used for storage and distribution of passenger carrying vehicles to be used on a 24 hour basis.

Received
3 February 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received3 Feb
  2. Validated3 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target30 Mar
  5. Decided16 Mar

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Unit 4 Park Road Retail Park Park Road Pontefract WF8 4PR. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker 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 Pontefract North. We hold 2,011 applications in total for the WF8 postcode area.

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

Postcode
WF8 4PR
Application type
Certificate Proposed Lawful Use or Dev
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 February 2020
Target decision date
30 March 2020
Decision issued
17 March 2020
Permission expires
17 March 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Avison Young
Agent address
City Point 29 King Street Leeds LS1 2HL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
6

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2020
    3 Feb

    Application for certificate of proposed lawfulness relating to the proposed use of unit no.4 [granted outline…

    This applicationApprovedOutline20/00252/CPL
  2. 2017
    25 Jan

    Outline planning application (including access) for up to 12,641sqm of floor space for use as Storage and…

    ApprovedOutline ApplicationPart of17/00177/OUT

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