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Land At Low Farm Hardwick Lane West Hardwick Wakefield WF4 1RQ

23/00567/COURAgricultural to Flexible Commercial UseWithdrawn

Withdrawn on 21 June 2023

Council decision: Application Withdrawn

Proposal

CHANGE OF USE OF AGRICULTURAL BUILDING TO STORAGE USE (USE CLASS B8)

Received
24 March 2023
Public comments
11
Ward
Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton
Agent
ELG Planning
  1. Received24 Mar
  2. Validated24 Mar
  3. Consult.20 Apr
  4. Target19 May
  5. Decided21 Jun

Decided in 89 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Land At Low Farm Hardwick Lane West Hardwick Wakefield WF4 1RQ. Wakefield has handled 83 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 89 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. 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 1,338 applications in total for the WF4 postcode area.

91% of all 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 1RQ
Application type
Agricultural to Flexible Commercial Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
West Hardwick

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 March 2023
Consultation expiry
27 April 2023
Consultation start
30 March 2023
Consultation end
20 April 2023
Last date for comments
27 April 2023
Target decision date
19 May 2023
Permission expires
21 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
ELG Planning
Agent address
8 Princes Square Harrogate North Yorkshire HG1 1LX United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
6 April 2023
Site notice end
27 April 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12034902
Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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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