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Broad Cut Farm Denby Dale Road Calder Grove Wakefield WF4 3AB

23/02285/EIASCEIA Scoping opinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 16 February 2024

Council decision: EIA Scoping opinion providedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Request for a Scoping Opinion under Regulation 15 of The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended) in respect of a mixed use development comprising up to 100 residential dwellings (Use Class C3) with erection of employment floorspace (Use Classes E(g)(ii) and (iii), B2 and B8 with ancillary office) with associated servicing and infrastructure including parking facilities, vehicle, pedestrian and cycle circulation, public open space, landscaping, ecology and noise mitigation, demolition of existing buildings and earthworks to create development platforms, drainage and means of access from the A636.

Received
1 December 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
23
Ward
Wakefield Rural
  1. Received1 Dec
  2. Validated1 Dec
  3. Consult.30 Jan
  4. Target5 Jan
  5. Decided16 Feb

Decided in 77 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Broad Cut Farm Denby Dale Road Calder Grove Wakefield WF4 3AB. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications 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.

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
WF4 3AB
Application type
EIA Scoping opinion
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
100
Parish
Crigglestone

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 December 2023
Consultation expiry
30 January 2024
Consultation start
13 December 2023
Consultation end
30 January 2024
Last date for comments
3 January 2024
Target decision date
5 January 2024
Permission expires
16 February 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Documents
45

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 (18)

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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