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Castleford Railway Station Beancroft Road Castleford WF10 5DN

21/02407/PAOPrior Approval - Private Act or OrderApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 February 2022

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

Proposal

Installation of a new footbridge and reinstatement of Platform 2

Received
10 September 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Castleford Central And Glasshoughton
  1. Received10 Sep
  2. Validated10 Sep
  3. Consult.26 Oct
  4. Target5 Nov
  5. Decided22 Feb

Decided in 165 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Castleford Railway Station Beancroft Road Castleford WF10 5DN. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 165 days, 16 weeks longer 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 34 applications across Castleford Central And Glasshoughton. We hold 760 applications in total for the WF10 postcode area.

95% of outline 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
WF10 5DN
Application type
Prior Approval - Private Act or Order
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 September 2021
Consultation expiry
28 October 2021
Consultation start
5 October 2021
Consultation end
26 October 2021
Last date for comments
28 October 2021
Target decision date
5 November 2021
Permission expires
22 February 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
7 October 2021
Site notice end
28 October 2021

Additional information

Documents
36

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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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