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Church Farm Church Street Woolley Wakefield WF4 2JU

26/00228/AGRAgricultural NotificationApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 27 March 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

An Agricultural Barn/ Dry Grain Store with associated hard standing and gate widening for practical access and use for the farming activities of the business

Received
9 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wakefield Rural
  1. Received9 Feb
  2. Validated4 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target1 Apr
  5. Decided27 Mar

Decided in 23 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Church Farm Church Street Woolley Wakefield WF4 2JU. Wakefield has handled 83 applications of this type. This one was decided in 46 days, 10 days 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 44 applications across Wakefield Rural. We hold 1,339 applications in total for the WF4 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
WF4 2JU
Application type
Agricultural Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Woolley

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 March 2026
Target decision date
1 April 2026
Decision issued
30 March 2026
Permission expires
30 March 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Willow Cottage, 1 Common End Flockton wf4 4db United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14687187
Comments
0
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: WakefieldPart of the site
  • 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.

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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