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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.
2,883 approved · 300 refused · 141 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
118 Kendal Drive Castleford WF10 3NJ
Received 2 Oct 201989 Mountbatten Crescent Outwood Wakefield WF1 3EG
Received 3 Oct 201940 Manorfields Avenue Crofton Wakefield WF4 1SZ
Received 1 Oct 2019County Hall Bond Street Wakefield WF1 2QW
Received 30 Sept 201945 High Street Normanton Wakefield WF6 2AF
Received 9 Oct 2019Bretton Hall Park Lane Bretton Wakefield WF4 4LG
Received 8 Oct 2019Bretton Hall Park Lane Bretton Wakefield WF4 4LG
Received 8 Oct 2019Bretton Hall Park Lane Bretton Wakefield WF4 4LG
Received 8 Oct 201930 Teall Street Ossett Wakefield WF5 0NY
Received 11 Oct 201911 Beechwood Grove Horbury Wakefield WF4 5JQ
Received 11 Oct 2019Camphill Wakefield Wood Lane Chapelthorpe Wakefield WF4 3JL
Received 11 Oct 201923 Cambridge Crescent Crofton Wakefield WF4 1RZ
Received 15 Oct 2019The Old Auction House Illingworth Street Ossett Wakefield WF5 8AL
Received 16 Oct 2019Library And Community Centre Station Lane Featherstone Pontefract WF7 5BB
Received 16 Oct 2019399 Barnsley Road Wakefield West Yorkshire WF2 6BG
Received 17 Oct 20193 The Chestnuts Pontefract WF8 2QH
Received 15 Oct 2019West Bretton Junior And Infant School Bretton Lane Bretton Wakefield WF4 4LB
Received 16 Oct 201959 Barnes Avenue Wakefield WF1 2BJ
Received 15 Oct 2019Bretton Lane/Maltkiln Drive Bretton Wakefield WF4 4LB
Received 18 Oct 20191 Hayfield Close Normanton WF6 1BT
Received 21 Oct 2019122 High Street Crofton Wakefield WF4 1HU
Received 21 Oct 2019Land To Rear Of Pontefract Road Pontefract WF8 2PR
Received 21 Oct 2019Land Off Seals Drive Ackworth Wakefield WF7 7FE
Received 21 Oct 20192 Church Close Hemsworth Pontefract WF9 4SJ
Received 18 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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