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37 - 39 Market Place Pontefract WF8 1AG

25/00966/LBCListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 21 July 2025

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Replacing signage to the front and rear of the building

Received
20 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received20 May
  2. Validated21 May
  3. Consult.7 Jul
  4. Target16 Jul
  5. Decided21 Jul

Decided in 61 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for signage at 37 - 39 Market Place Pontefract WF8 1AG. Wakefield has handled 157 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application 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.

100% of heritage 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 1AG
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 May 2025
Consultation expiry
10 July 2025
Consultation start
30 June 2025
Consultation end
7 July 2025
Last date for comments
10 July 2025
Target decision date
16 July 2025
Permission expires
21 July 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Greens The Signmakers Limited Greens Signmakers Freightliner Road KINGSTON UPON HULL HU3 4UW

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
19 June 2025
Advertisement expiry
10 July 2025
Site notice start
5 June 2025
Site notice end
26 June 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14033301
Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2025
    20 May

    1 x aluminium fascia sign and 1 x Projecting sign to front of building and 2 x panels to rear of building

    ApprovedAdvertisement consentFiled alongside25/00965/ADV
  2. 2025
    20 May

    Replacing signage to the front and rear of the building

    This applicationApprovedListed building consent25/00966/LBC

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