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Market Hall Market Place Pontefract WF8 1AU

21/01520/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 25 August 2021

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Replacement entrance doors, redecoration of timber shutters, handrail and stone repairs to Market Hall facade - located off Market Place

Received
10 June 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontefract North
Agent
Arcadis LLP
  1. Received10 Jun
  2. Validated10 Jun
  3. Consult.8 Jul
  4. Target5 Aug
  5. Decided25 Aug

Decided in 76 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Market Hall Market Place Pontefract WF8 1AU. Wakefield has handled 157 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 3 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application 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.

100% of heritage 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 1AU
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 June 2021
Consultation expiry
22 July 2021
Consultation start
17 June 2021
Consultation end
8 July 2021
Last date for comments
15 July 2021
Target decision date
5 August 2021
Permission expires
25 August 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Arcadis LLP
Agent address
Wakefield One Burton Street Wakefield WF1 2EB United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
1 July 2021
Advertisement expiry
22 July 2021
Site notice start
24 June 2021
Site notice end
15 July 2021

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09926989
Comments
0
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II: Market HallOn this site · +1 more
  • 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, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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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