48 High Street Upton Pontefract WF9 1HQ
Refused on 4 December 2025
Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from funeral directors (Use Class E) with ancillary residential dwelling at first floor (Use Class C3) to 2no. flats (Use Class C3) including external alterations
- Received
- 3 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Ward
- Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton
- Agent
- Parker Liddle Architecture
- ReceivedReceived3 Oct
- ValidatedValidated9 Oct
- Consult.Consultation30 Oct
- TargetTarget Date4 Dec
- DecidedDecided4 Dec
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 48 High Street Upton Pontefract WF9 1HQ. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton. We hold 1,144 applications in total for the WF9 postcode area.
94% 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
- Postcode
- WF9 1HQ
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Upton
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 14 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 9 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 30 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 14 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 4 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 4 December 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Parker Liddle Architecture
- Architect profile
- PARKER LIDDLE ARCHITECTURE LTD
- Agent address
- 45 Haddon Street Tibshelf Alfreton Derbyshire DE55 5QB United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 24 October 2025
- Site notice end
- 14 November 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14369602
- Documents
- 10
Site constraints
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.
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