Skip to content

Mill Lane Garage Mill Lane Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7NW

23/00314/REM01Approval of Reserved MattersApproved
Reserved matters

Approved on 12 February 2026

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Approval of Reserved Matters pursuant to 23/00314/S7301 (appearance, landscaping and scale) for residential development of 4no. dwellings

Received
11 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton
  1. Received11 Jul
  2. Validated15 Jul
  3. Consult.7 Aug
  4. Target9 Sep
  5. Decided12 Feb

Decided in 212 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Mill Lane Garage Mill Lane Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7NW. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 216 days, 23 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 37 applications across Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton. We hold 442 applications in total for the WF7 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).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

Postcode
WF7 7NW
Application type
Approval of Reserved Matters
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ackworth

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 July 2025
Consultation expiry
12 September 2025
Consultation start
17 July 2025
Consultation end
7 August 2025
Last date for comments
12 September 2025
Target decision date
9 September 2025
Decision issued
16 February 2026
Permission expires
16 February 2031

Applicant and agent

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

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
22 August 2025
Site notice end
12 September 2025

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
12

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.

Source: Wakefield

Track this application

Get email alerts when there is a planning decision or status change.

Get email alerts near WF7

New planning applications delivered to your inbox daily.

Around this site

Discuss this application on r/PlanningPermissionUK

For applicants and trades

What's been approved on your street?

See what the council approved and refused near this address for the project you have in mind, and the rules that apply here.

Get The Signal Report