Land At Holme Farm Way Pontefract

23/02384/EIASOEIA Screening OpinionApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 29 February 2024

Council decision: EIA Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

Residential development

Received: 21 December 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
Ward: Pontefract South

ReceivedReceived21 Dec
ValidatedValidated21 Dec
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date11 Jan
DecidedDecided29 Feb

Decided in 70 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land At Holme Farm Way Pontefract. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 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 23 applications across Pontefract South.

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

Application type: EIA Screening Opinion
Scale / size: Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated: 21 December 2023
Target decision date: 11 January 2024
Permission expires: 28 February 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period: 21 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 1

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

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Source: Wakefield

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