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5A Gillygate Pontefract WF8 1PH

22/01552/CPLCertificate Proposed Lawful Use or DevRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 22 September 2022

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from Class C3 (Dwellinghouses) to Class C4 (Houses in Multiple Occupation)

Received
18 July 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontefract North
Agent
NW Architects
  1. Received18 Jul
  2. Validated18 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Sep
  5. Decided22 Sep

Decided in 66 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 5A Gillygate Pontefract WF8 1PH. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 10 days 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.

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
WF8 1PH
Application type
Certificate Proposed Lawful Use or Dev
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 July 2022
Target decision date
12 September 2022
Decision issued
23 September 2022
Permission expires
23 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
NW Architects
Architect profile
NW ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
NW Architects 27 York Place Leeds LS1 2EY United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11408780
Comments
0
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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

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© 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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