Prosper House Upper Warrengate Wakefield WF1 4JZ
Refused on 23 December 2025
Council decision: Prior Approval Required and RefusedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Conversion of existing 2 storey office building to 8no 1 bedroom flats
- Received
- 12 November 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 4
- Ward
- Wakefield East
- Agent
- Building Design U.K. Limited
- ReceivedReceived12 Nov
- ValidatedValidated12 Nov
- Consult.Consultation11 Dec
- TargetTarget Date7 Jan
- DecidedDecided23 Dec
Decided in 41 days
About this application
This is a planning application at Prosper House Upper Warrengate Wakefield WF1 4JZ. Wakefield has handled 8,262 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 22 applications across Wakefield East. We hold 469 applications in total for the WF1 postcode area.
Application details
- Postcode
- WF1 4JZ
- Application type
- Class E to C3
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 18 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 20 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 11 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 18 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 7 January 2026
- Decision issued
- 24 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 24 December 2030
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Building Design U.K. Limited
- Agent address
- Wordsworth Approach Pontefact WF8 1NQ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 27 November 2025
- Site notice end
- 18 December 2025
Appeal
- Appeal reference
- 26/00001/REF
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
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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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
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