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37 Barnsley Road South Elmsall Pontefract WF9 2RN

21/02233/COUGClass E etc to Mixed Use and 2 FlatsApproved

Approved on 3 February 2022

Council decision: Prior Approval Required and GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from former building society to mixed use property with retail (Class E) at ground floor and 1no. flat at first floor

Received
3 September 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
South Elmsall And South Kirkby
  1. Received3 Sep
  2. Validated13 Dec
  3. Consult.6 Jan
  4. Target7 Feb
  5. Decided3 Feb

Decided in 52 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 37 Barnsley Road South Elmsall Pontefract WF9 2RN. Wakefield has handled 8,262 applications of this type. This one was decided in 153 days, 14 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 18 applications across South Elmsall And South Kirkby. We hold 1,144 applications in total for the WF9 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
WF9 2RN
Application type
Class E etc to Mixed Use and 2 Flats
Scale / size
Small
Parish
South Elmsall

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 December 2021
Consultation expiry
13 January 2022
Consultation start
16 December 2021
Consultation end
6 January 2022
Last date for comments
13 January 2022
Target decision date
7 February 2022
Decision issued
4 February 2022
Permission expires
4 February 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
23 December 2021
Site notice end
13 January 2022

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
13

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2022
    6 Apr

    Discharge of conditions 1 (Noise) and 2 (Radon) from approved application 21/02233/COUG

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions21/02233/SUB01
  2. 2021
    3 Sep

    Change of use from former building society to mixed use property with retail (Class E) at ground floor and…

    This applicationApprovedApplication21/02233/COUG

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