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4 High Street Upton Pontefract WF9 1HG

21/01584/COUCA1 / A2 / Casino to A3Approved

Approved on 29 July 2021

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of betting shop (sui generis) to cafe/restaurant

Received
16 June 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton
  1. Received16 Jun
  2. Validated16 Jun
  3. Consult.13 Jul
  4. Target11 Aug
  5. Decided29 Jul

Decided in 43 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 4 High Street Upton Pontefract WF9 1HG. Wakefield has handled 8,262 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 13 days 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 37 applications across Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton. We hold 1,144 applications in total for the WF9 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
WF9 1HG
Application type
A1 / A2 / Casino to A3
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Upton

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 June 2021
Consultation expiry
28 July 2021
Consultation start
22 June 2021
Consultation end
13 July 2021
Last date for comments
28 July 2021
Target decision date
11 August 2021
Permission expires
29 July 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
7 July 2021
Site notice end
28 July 2021

Additional information

Documents
5

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

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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