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FCC Environment Weeland Road Knottingley WF11 8DZ

25/01962/EIASCEIA Scoping opinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 December 2025

Council decision: EIA Scoping opinion providedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Scoping opinion for waste to resource park

Received
17 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
17
Ward
Knottingley
  1. Received17 Oct
  2. Validated17 Oct
  3. Consult.2 Dec
  4. Target21 Nov
  5. Decided11 Dec

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at FCC Environment Weeland Road Knottingley WF11 8DZ. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across Knottingley. We hold 84 applications in total for the WF11 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
WF11 8DZ
Application type
EIA Scoping opinion
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 October 2025
Consultation expiry
2 December 2025
Consultation start
11 November 2025
Consultation end
2 December 2025
Last date for comments
2 December 2025
Target decision date
21 November 2025
Permission expires
11 December 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Documents
31

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
  • Flood storage areaPart of the site
  • Green belt: WakefieldPart of the site

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 (19)

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.

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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