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Former St Johns Church 511 Denby Dale Road West Calder Grove Wakefield WF4 3AA

23/01863/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 11 July 2024

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion of former church to a two storey single dwelling and associated work

Received
25 September 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
6
Ward
Wakefield Rural
  1. Received25 Sep
  2. Validated5 Oct
  3. Consult.9 Jul
  4. Target30 Nov
  5. Decided11 Jul

Decided in 280 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Former St Johns Church 511 Denby Dale Road West Calder Grove Wakefield WF4 3AA. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 290 days, 33 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Wakefield Rural. We hold 1,338 applications in total for the WF4 postcode area.

94% of full 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 3AA
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Crigglestone

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 October 2023
Consultation expiry
9 July 2024
Consultation start
18 June 2024
Consultation end
9 July 2024
Neighbour consultation start
11 October 2023
Neighbour consultation end
1 November 2023
Last date for comments
9 July 2024
Target decision date
30 November 2023
Permission expires
11 July 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
19 October 2023
Advertisement expiry
9 November 2023
Site notice start
31 October 2023
Site notice end
21 November 2023

Appeal history

3330339
Allowed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 1 July 2024Dev Type: Householder developmentsReason: Refusal
3338138
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 3 June 2024Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
20

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

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.

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