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The Old Coach House Button Park Pontefract WF8 4HT

23/00097/COUMAClass E to C3Awaiting decision
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Proposal

Conversion of existing office building to 2no. one bedroom apartments and 2no. studio apartments. Resubmission of App No: 22/02325/COUMA.

Received
18 January 2023
Decision due
15 March 2023
Public comments
6
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received18 Jan
  2. Validated18 Jan
  3. Consult.13 Feb
  4. Target15 Mar
  5. Decided

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Comments close on 13 February.

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About this application

This is a planning application at The Old Coach House Button Park Pontefract WF8 4HT. Wakefield has handled 8,262 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 18 January 2023 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 3 other applications 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.

Application details

Postcode
WF8 4HT
Application type
Class E to C3
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Pontefract

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 January 2023
Consultation expiry
2 March 2023
Consultation start
23 January 2023
Consultation end
13 February 2023
Last date for comments
2 March 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO: Mr Graham Poole 26 Wordsworth Approach Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 1NQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
9 February 2023
Advertisement expiry
2 March 2023
Site notice start
26 January 2023
Site notice end
16 February 2023

Additional information

Documents
11

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. 2023
    18 Jan

    Conversion of existing office building to 2no. one bedroom apartments and 2no. studio apartments…

    This applicationPendingApplication23/00097/COUMA
  2. 2022
    14 Nov

    Conversion of office building to 3no. one bed apartments and 1 no. studio

    RefusedClass E to C3Part of22/02325/COUMA

Source: Wakefield

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