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4 Cross Keys Mews Halfpenny Lane Pontefract WF8 4AY

25/00174/CPECertificate Existing Lawful Use or DevApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 13 June 2025

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawful existing development for use of Flat 4 as a dwelling, in breach of Conditions 2-7 (inclusive) of planning permission 13/01066/FUL, dated. 26th June 2013, which granted consent for 'Alteration of former public house to create 5 dwellings and associated parking'

Received
28 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received28 Jan
  2. Validated13 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target10 Apr
  5. Decided13 Jun

Decided in 120 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 4 Cross Keys Mews Halfpenny Lane Pontefract WF8 4AY. Wakefield has handled 436 applications of this type. This one was decided in 136 days, 11 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 34 applications across Pontefract North. 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 4AY
Application type
Certificate Existing Lawful Use or Dev
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 February 2025
Target decision date
10 April 2025
Permission expires
13 June 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Kingsley Smith Solicitors LLP The Joiners Shop The Historic Dockyard Chatham ME4 4TZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13716613
Comments
0
Documents
9

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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