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45 - 49 Barnsley Road (land Rear Of) South Elmsall Pontefract WF9 2RN

24/02235/OUTOutline ApplicationRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 27 February 2025

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Outline application for the erection of 4no. 2-bedroom flats with associated parking including access and layout (appearance, landscaping and scale reserved)

Received
18 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
8
Ward
South Elmsall And South Kirkby
  1. Received18 Dec
  2. Validated2 Jan
  3. Consult.10 Mar
  4. Target27 Feb
  5. Decided27 Feb

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 45 - 49 Barnsley Road (land Rear Of) South Elmsall Pontefract WF9 2RN. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 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 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 2RN
Application type
Outline Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
South Elmsall

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 January 2025
Consultation expiry
10 March 2025
Consultation start
17 February 2025
Consultation end
10 March 2025
Neighbour consultation start
6 January 2025
Neighbour consultation end
27 January 2025
Last date for comments
10 March 2025
Target decision date
27 February 2025
Permission expires
27 February 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Building Design UK Limited 26 Wordsworth Approach Pontefract WF8 1NQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
17 January 2025
Site notice end
7 February 2025

Additional information

Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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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