Caretaker Sandal Endowed School 371 Barnsley Road Wakefield WF2 6AS
Approved on 4 December 2024
Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Proposed change of use from Caretakers Accommodation to Offices and Meeting Rooms (Class F1)
- Received
- 3 October 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Ward
- Wakefield South
- Agent
- Neil Bowen Architects Ltd
- ReceivedReceived3 Oct
- ValidatedValidated10 Oct
- Consult.Consultation5 Dec
- TargetTarget Date5 Dec
- DecidedDecided4 Dec
Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Caretaker Sandal Endowed School 371 Barnsley Road Wakefield WF2 6AS. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days 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 45 applications across Wakefield South. We hold 1,157 applications in total for the WF2 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
- WF2 6AS
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 October 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 5 December 2024
- Consultation start
- 14 November 2024
- Consultation end
- 5 December 2024
- Last date for comments
- 5 December 2024
- Target decision date
- 5 December 2024
- Decision issued
- 5 December 2024
- Permission expires
- 5 December 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Neil Bowen Architects Ltd
- Agent address
- Neil Bowen Architects Ltd Office F7 Flexspace Monckton Road Wakefield WF2 7AS
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 6 November 2024
- Site notice end
- 27 November 2024
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13314457
- Documents
- 8
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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 (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.
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