The Old Coach House Button Park Pontefract WF8 4HT
Approved on 29 January 2021
Council decision: Prior Approval Required and GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use of existing office building to 2 no. dwellings
- Received
- 24 November 2020
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 5
- Ward
- Pontefract North
- ReceivedReceived24 Nov
- ValidatedValidated7 Dec
- Consult.Consultation30 Dec
- TargetTarget Date1 Feb
- DecidedDecided29 Jan
Decided in 53 days
About this application
This is a planning application for a change of use at The Old Coach House Button Park Pontefract WF8 4HT. Wakefield has handled 8,262 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 10 days longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 3 other applications 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.
Application details
- Postcode
- WF8 4HT
- Application type
- B1 to C3
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 7 December 2020
- Consultation expiry
- 4 February 2021
- Consultation start
- 9 December 2020
- Consultation end
- 30 December 2020
- Neighbour consultation start
- 24 December 2020
- Neighbour consultation end
- 14 January 2021
- Last date for comments
- 4 February 2021
- Target decision date
- 1 February 2021
- Permission expires
- 29 January 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Pearce & Pearce
- Agent address
- Pearce & Pearce 10 Bluebell Court Pontefract WF8 4FX
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 14 January 2021
- Advertisement expiry
- 4 February 2021
- Site notice start
- 22 December 2020
- Site notice end
- 12 January 2021
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-09283678
- Documents
- 7
Site constraints
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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202318 Jan
Conversion of existing office building to 2no. one bedroom apartments and 2no. studio apartments…
PendingClass E to C323/00097/COUMA - 202214 Nov
Conversion of office building to 3no. one bed apartments and 1 no. studio
RefusedClass E to C322/02325/COUMA - 202025 Sep
Conversion of existing office building to of 3 no. 2 bedroom apartment dwellings
RefusedB1 to C320/02039/COUO
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