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2 The Towers Towers Lane Crofton Wakefield WF4 1QB

22/01319/TPOTree Preservation Order ConsentWithdrawn

Withdrawn on 18 July 2022

Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Sycamore - 5340 - Two large limbs with long scars with exposed wood that contains several woodpecker holes in them, a cause of structural weakness. Remove both effected limbs and crown clean to remove all dead wood. Lime - 238 - Remove all deadwood.

Received
17 June 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Crofton, Ryhill And Walton
  1. Received17 Jun
  2. Validated21 Jun
  3. Consult.12 Jul
  4. Target16 Aug
  5. Decided18 Jul

Decided in 27 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 2 The Towers Towers Lane Crofton Wakefield WF4 1QB. Wakefield has handled 677 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 31 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Crofton, Ryhill And Walton. We hold 1,339 applications in total for the WF4 postcode area.

54% of trees 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
WF4 1QB
Application type
Tree Preservation Order Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Crofton

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 June 2022
Consultation expiry
12 July 2022
Consultation start
21 June 2022
Consultation end
12 July 2022
Last date for comments
12 July 2022
Target decision date
16 August 2022
Permission expires
18 July 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Carter Jonas
Agent address
Carter Jonas 2 Snow Hill Queensway Birmingham CV7 8FQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11333025
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Wakefield
  • 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, listed buildings, 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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