Ferrybridge 1 Energy From Waste Plant Fryston Lane Knottingley WF11 8DX
Approved on 4 December 2025
Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Demolition of a 350m length of a disused rail siding including two sets of points mounted on wooden sleepers and around 300m of dual track and any proposed restoration of the Site to enable construction of elements of Ferrybridge 1 Line 3. Demolition of the existing stores building comprising a dark coloured, metal clad industrial building with dual pitch-roof and an adjoining dark coloured, metal clad industrial building with a mono-pitch roof, as identified on the Site Location Plan.
- Received
- 7 November 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Knottingley
- ReceivedReceived7 Nov
- ValidatedValidated7 Nov
- Consult.Consultation2 Dec
- TargetTarget Date5 Dec
- DecidedDecided4 Dec
Decided in 27 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a planning application for demolition at Ferrybridge 1 Energy From Waste Plant Fryston Lane Knottingley WF11 8DX. Wakefield has handled 83 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 4 weeks 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 18 applications across Knottingley. We hold 84 applications in total for the WF11 postcode area.
91% of all 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 8DX
- Application type
- Demolition Notification
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 7 November 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
- 5 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 4 December 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Savills
- Agent address
- 3 Wellington Place Leeds LS1 4AP United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 28 days
Site constraints
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.
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Source: Wakefield
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