5 Rother Garth South Elmsall Pontefract WF9 2AN
Approved on 19 May 2026
Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)1 condition
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Proposal
The conversion of an existing attached garage to form a home office (retrospective)
- Received
- 28 November 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Ward
- South Elmsall And South Kirkby
- ReceivedReceived28 Nov
- ValidatedValidated1 Dec
- Consult.Consultation22 Dec
- TargetTarget Date26 Jan
- DecidedDecided19 May
Decided in 169 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a garage at 5 Rother Garth South Elmsall Pontefract WF9 2AN. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 172 days, 17 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in the Forest Gate Town Centre conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across South Elmsall And South Kirkby. 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 2AN
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- South Elmsall
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 29 January 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 1 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 22 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 29 January 2026
- Target decision date
- 26 January 2026
- Permission expires
- 19 May 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- WHpARCHITECTURE
- Agent address
- 18 Heymoor Studio 18 Abbey Road Shepley Huddersfield HD8 8EP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 18 December 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 8 January 2026
- Site notice start
- 8 January 2026
- Site notice end
- 29 January 2026
Appeal history
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14469895
- Documents
- 9
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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Source: Wakefield
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