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Manor House Carleton Road Pontefract WF8 3NP

20/01911/TPOTree Preservation Order ConsentRefused

Refused on 23 December 2020

Council decision: Refused with alternative works givenDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 Copper Beech. Fell. We wish to remove this tree due to the succession of major limb fails in the last 2 years. The last being only weeks ago and extremely substantial to the point that it has now lost a third of its highway side canopy. There has been hazard beam noticed in the canopy in addition to this. The tree is now heavily loaded towards the Rookeries Primary school and also hangs over a public footpath that the children use to get to and from the school not to mention the general public. If the last failure would have hit anyone using the footpath we would have been dealing with far more than a call out. The tree now poses extreme concern to the owner and the school and we believe that the tree must be removed.

Received
11 September 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontefract South
  1. Received11 Sep
  2. Validated11 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target6 Nov
  5. Decided23 Dec

Decided in 103 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Manor House Carleton Road Pontefract WF8 3NP. Wakefield has handled 677 applications of this type. This one was decided in 103 days, 7 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Pontefract South. We hold 2,011 applications in total for the WF8 postcode area.

54% of trees 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 3NP
Application type
Tree Preservation Order Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Pontefract

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 September 2020
Target decision date
6 November 2020
Permission expires
23 December 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO: Mr Darran Burke 6 Keswick View Ackworth Pontefract West Yorkshire WF7 7BT

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09060283
Comments
0
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: WakefieldNext to the site
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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© 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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