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62 - 64 Barnsley Road South Elmsall Pontefract WF9 2RF

23/02010/CPLCertificate Proposed Lawful Use or DevApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 13 November 2023

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed Change of Use of the existing pharmacy (Use Class E(e)) to include a Cafe (Class Use E (b))

Received
17 October 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
South Elmsall And South Kirkby
Agent
Jolo Design
  1. Received17 Oct
  2. Validated17 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Dec
  5. Decided13 Nov

Decided in 27 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 62 - 64 Barnsley Road South Elmsall Pontefract WF9 2RF. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 4 weeks quicker than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across South Elmsall And South Kirkby. We hold 1,144 applications in total for the WF9 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
WF9 2RF
Application type
Certificate Proposed Lawful Use or Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
South Elmsall

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 October 2023
Target decision date
12 December 2023
Permission expires
13 November 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Jolo Design
Agent address
46A Hylton House Montrose Road Carter Knowle Sheffield South Yorkshire S7 2EE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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

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