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12 Hillcroft Close Darrington Pontefract WF8 3BD

24/01830/S7301Section 73 ApplicationApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 5 May 2026

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)5 conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Variation of Condition 2 (Plans) of planning permission 24/01830/FUL, dated 11/12/2024 (which granted permission for the demolition of existing detached garage. Proposed detached garage and single storey side/ front extension to bungalow. Render to external walls of existing dwelling) to amend the plans in order to remove the previously approved single storey side extension to the bungalow and revise the detached garage by slightly increasing its length and relocating it within the site.

Received
13 March 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontefract South
  1. Received13 Mar
  2. Validated13 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target8 May
  5. Decided5 May

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 12 Hillcroft Close Darrington Pontefract WF8 3BD. Wakefield has handled 436 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker 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. We hold 2,011 applications in total for the WF8 postcode area.

93% of amendment 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
WF8 3BD
Application type
Section 73 Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Darrington

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 March 2026
Target decision date
8 May 2026
Permission expires
5 May 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent address
98A Aketon Road Castleford West Yorkshire WF10 5DU United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14777791
Comments
0
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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.

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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