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6 Millfield Cottages Horbury Wakefield WF4 5ET

25/00904/ENFAPPEnforcement ApplicationApproved

Approved on 8 May 2026

Council decision: Inspectorate Upheld enforcement notice

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Enforcement Appeal for the unauthorised construction of an outbuilding.

Received
12 May 2025
Ward
Horbury And South Ossett
  1. Received12 May
  2. Validated12 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 May
  5. Decided8 May

Decided in 361 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for an outbuilding at 6 Millfield Cottages Horbury Wakefield WF4 5ET. Wakefield has handled 83 applications of this type. This one was decided in 361 days, 44 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 7 applications across Horbury And South Ossett. We hold 1,339 applications in total for the WF4 postcode area.

91% of all 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
WF4 5ET
Application type
Enforcement Application
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 May 2025
Target decision date
12 May 2026
Permission expires
8 May 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent address
302 New Road Staincross BARNSLEY S75 6GP

Planning decision

Statutory period
365 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High 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.

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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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2023
    14 Aug

    Detached outbuilding

    RefusedFull Application23/01553/FUL

Source: Wakefield

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