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Land South Station Road South Elmsall Pontefract

25/00731/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 24 November 2025

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of land to a use comprising of a 2 pitch ( 2 statics, 2 trailers and 2 day rooms) traveller site, including the formation of hard standing with access off Station Road, the installation of biodigester, the erection of a boundary fence and lanscaped amenity space within the site (part retrospective) - resubmission of planning application - 22/01594/FUL (Retrospective)

Received
9 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
10
Ward
South Elmsall And South Kirkby
Agent
MAT DESIGN LIMITED
  1. Received9 Apr
  2. Validated29 Jul
  3. Consult.1 Dec
  4. Target23 Sep
  5. Decided24 Nov

Decided in 118 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Land South Station Road South Elmsall Pontefract. Wakefield has handled 3,735 applications of this type. This one was decided in 229 days, 25 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in the Keele conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across South Elmsall And South Kirkby.

93% 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

Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
South Elmsall

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 July 2025
Consultation expiry
1 December 2025
Consultation start
10 November 2025
Consultation end
1 December 2025
Last date for comments
1 December 2025
Target decision date
23 September 2025
Permission expires
24 November 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
MAT DESIGN LIMITED
Agent address
17 Brookside Avenue Eccleston St.Helens WA10 4RN United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
14 August 2025
Advertisement expiry
4 September 2025
Site notice start
7 August 2025
Site notice end
28 August 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13895875
Documents
23

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Green belt: Wakefield

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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2026
    9 Jan

    Discharge of Condition 10 (Biodiversity Net Gain - BNG), 11 (Habitat Management & Monitoring Plan - HMMP)…

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions25/00731/SUB01
  2. 2025
    9 Apr

    Change of use of land to a use comprising of a 2 pitch ( 2 statics, 2 trailers and 2 day rooms) traveller…

    This applicationApprovedFull25/00731/FUL

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