Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
2,960 approved · 313 refused · 145 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Apr 2006 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
470 Aberford Road Stanley Wakefield WF3 4AZ
Received 22 Jan 2020Production Park 5 Langthwaite Road Langthwaite Grange Ind Est South Kirkby Pontefract WF9 3AP
Received 22 Jan 2020Land Off Hammer Lane And Clifton Road (junction Of) Sharlston Common
Received 22 Jan 2020Portare Mill Lane Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7NW
Received 22 Jan 2020McDonald's Restaurant Snowhill Retail Park Red Hall Lane Wakefield WF1 2UZ
Received 22 Jan 20201 Cedar Walk Featherstone Pontefract WF7 6JN
Received 23 Jan 20206 Moorhouse Crescent Wakefield WF2 9QF
Received 21 Jan 202012 Brunswick Street Wakefield WF1 4PW
Received 20 Jan 202017 Woolgreaves Close Wakefield West Yorkshire WF2 6DZ
Received 23 Jan 202027 Gilcar Street Normanton WF6 1RD
Received 21 Jan 2020Walton Lane Wakefield
Received 22 Jan 2020Grovehall Lane Knottingley
Received 22 Jan 2020Land At Top Farm Stocksmoor Road Midgley Wakefield WF4 4JQ
Received 23 Jan 2020Spawd Bone Lane Knottingley Pontefract WF11 0JF
Received 23 Jan 2020Westfield Grove (Land Off) Low Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7HF
Received 24 Jan 2020Stocksmoor Grange Bungalow Stocksmoor Road Midgley Wakefield WF4 4JQ
Received 24 Jan 2020Manor Lodge The Grove Normanton WF6 1AE
Received 22 Jan 2020Land Off Stuart Road Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 1NW
Received 24 Jan 20207 Park Farm Gardens South Kirkby Pontefract WF9 3AF
Received 23 Jan 2020Land Off Beachill Drive Havercroft Wakefield
Received 24 Jan 202014 Borrowdale Drive (land To Rear) Castleford WF10 2NU
Received 24 Jan 202010 Stratus Close Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7RD
Received 25 Jan 2020Holly House Dearden Street Ossett WF5 8NR
Received 26 Jan 2020Former C6 And Nestle Site Wheldon Road Castleford Wakefield WF10 2PR
Received 27 Jan 2020Records 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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