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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Wakefield Metropolitan District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
2,880 approved · 300 refused · 141 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Apr 2006 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 10 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Former Normanton Brick Works Newlands Lane Altofts
Received 20 Sept 2017Womersley Road Knottingley WF11 0DL
Received 18 Jan 2018Blue Bell Inn Great North Road Wentbridge Pontefract WF8 3JP
Received 26 Feb 2018Mosque Duke Of York Street Wakefield WF1 3PD
Received 17 Jun 201943 Northfield Lane Horbury Wakefield WF4 5HU
Received 8 Jul 2019Ferrybridge Workspace Pontefract Road Knottingley WF11 8PL
Received 9 Jul 2019The Old Auction House Illingworth Street Ossett Wakefield WF5 8AN
Received 16 Jul 2019Land Off Havertop Lane Normanton
Received 29 Jul 201926 Rookhill Drive Pontefract WF8 2BT
Received 29 Jan 202023 Riverdale Avenue (Land Adj To) Stanley Wakefield WF3 4LF
Received 6 Aug 2019Pinderfields General Hospital Aberford Road Wakefield WF1 4DG
Received 9 Aug 2019The Brig 1 St Mary's Road Normanton WF6 2JH
Received 8 Sept 201963 Churchfield Lane Castleford WF10 4JY
Received 9 Sept 201934 Front Street Pontefract WF8 1NW
Received 16 Sept 201927 Rock House Way Ossett WF5 0BG
Received 20 Sept 2019134 Katrina Grove Featherstone Pontefract WF7 5NT
Received 19 Sept 2019162-164 Alverthorpe Road Wakefield WF2 9PY
Received 23 Sept 201917 Warmfield Lane Warmfield Wakefield WF1 5TN
Received 24 Sept 2019St Faiths Manor (Land At) Off Bevan Grove Wakefield WF1 4EX
Received 25 Sept 201939 Mountbatten Crescent Outwood Wakefield WF1 3EN
Received 27 Sept 2019St Faiths Manor (Land At) Off Bevan Grove Wakefield WF1 4EX
Received 27 Sept 20195 Church Lane Chapelthorpe Wakefield WF4 3JF
Received 30 Sept 2019Thurston Group Limited Quarry Hill Industrial Estate Quarry Hill Wakefield WF4 6AJ
Received 1 Oct 201932 Wavell Grove Wakefield WF2 6JR
Received 2 Oct 2019Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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