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Treetop Lodge Pontefract Road Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7EE

25/01375/CPLCertificate Proposed Lawful Use or DevApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 1 October 2025

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Conversion of garage to bedroom

Received
15 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton
  1. Received15 Jul
  2. Validated6 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target1 Oct
  5. Decided1 Oct

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at Treetop Lodge Pontefract Road Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7EE. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 78 days, 3 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton. We hold 442 applications in total for the WF7 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
WF7 7EE
Application type
Certificate Proposed Lawful Use or Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ackworth

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 August 2025
Target decision date
1 October 2025
Permission expires
1 October 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Building Design U.K. Limited 26 Wordsworth Approach Pontefract WF8 1NQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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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