Hillthorpe Farm Bungalow Thorpe Lane Thorpe Audlin Pontefract WF8 3EW
Refused on 18 February 2026
Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application for Permission in Principle for 6no. dwellings
- Received
- 16 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 26
- Ward
- Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton
- ReceivedReceived16 Dec
- ValidatedValidated15 Jan
- Consult.Consultation5 Feb
- TargetTarget Date19 Feb
- DecidedDecided18 Feb
Decided in 34 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Hillthorpe Farm Bungalow Thorpe Lane Thorpe Audlin Pontefract WF8 3EW. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer 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 37 applications across Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton. We hold 2,011 applications in total for the WF8 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
- WF8 3EW
- Application type
- Permission in Principle
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Thorpe Audlin
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 15 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 13 February 2026
- Consultation start
- 15 January 2026
- Consultation end
- 5 February 2026
- Last date for comments
- 13 February 2026
- Target decision date
- 19 February 2026
- Decision issued
- 19 February 2026
- Permission expires
- 19 February 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- MHA Architecture Bethal Hall Morton Hall East Morton Bradford BD20 5UE
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 35 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 22 January 2026
- Advertisement expiry
- 12 February 2026
- Site notice start
- 23 January 2026
- Site notice end
- 13 February 2026
Additional information
- Documents
- 11
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Green belt: Wakefield
- 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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Source: Wakefield
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