161 Old Road Overton Wakefield WF4 4RR
Approved on 5 December 2025
Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Red Oak - Crown Reduce the lower branches, which are no greater than 25mm thick to create a maximum 2metre clearance to the adjacent floodlight.
- Received
- 16 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Wakefield Rural
- ReceivedReceived16 Oct
- ValidatedValidated17 Oct
- Consult.Consultation7 Nov
- TargetTarget Date12 Dec
- DecidedDecided5 Dec
Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at 161 Old Road Overton Wakefield WF4 4RR. Wakefield has handled 677 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 6 days quicker than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Wakefield Rural. We hold 1,339 applications in total for the WF4 postcode area.
54% of trees 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 4RR
- Application type
- Tree Preservation Order Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Sitlington
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 7 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 17 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 7 November 2025
- Last date for comments
- 7 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 12 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 5 December 2027
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Green belt: WakefieldNext to the site
- 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 (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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