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.
3,247 approved · 328 refused · 161 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Apr 2006 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ninevah House Ninevah Lane Badsworth Pontefract WF9 1AP
Received 4 Jul 2020The Mistle 5 Old Boyne Hill Farm Wood Lane Chapelthorpe Wakefield WF4 3JL
Received 5 Jul 2020The Mistle 5 Old Boyne Hill Farm Wood Lane Chapelthorpe Wakefield WF4 3JL
Received 5 Jul 202050 Water Lane Middlestown Wakefield WF4 4PX
Received 5 Jul 2020Rutland Mills Tootal Street Wakefield
Received 6 Jul 2020Next Distribution Limited 1 Stadium Way Dale Lane South Elmsall Pontefract WF9 2XR
Received 3 Jul 202044 Moor Avenue Stanley Wakefield WF3 4EJ
Received 3 Jul 20201A Holes Lane Knottingley WF11 8LH
Received 6 Jul 20204 Villa Close Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7NR
Received 6 Jul 20209 Millers Croft Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7RN
Received 3 Jul 2020Kinsley Boys F.C Tombridge Crescent Kinsley Pontefract WF9 5HA
Received 3 Jul 202035 Parkside Lane Stanley Wakefield WF3 4NG
Received 3 Jul 20209-13 Cherry Tree Drive Walton Wakefield WF2 6LG
Received 6 Jul 20206 Highfield Avenue Pontefract Road Pontefract WF8 2PT
Received 6 Jul 20207 Pledwick Crescent Wakefield WF2 6DF
Received 6 Jul 2020Land At Pope Street Altofts Normanton WF6 2QY
Received 6 Jul 202039 Rosemount Drive Normanton WF6 1WG
Received 6 Jul 2020Albany Crescent South Elmsall Pontefract WF9 2EL
Received 6 Jul 2020Chapelthorpe Hall Hall Lane Chapelthorpe Wakefield WF4 3JB
Received 6 Jul 202029 Robin Lane Hemsworth Pontefract WF9 4PL
Received 6 Jul 202015 St Andrews Place Normanton WF6 1WB
Received 6 Jul 2020Carleton Furniture Group (former) Mill Dam Lane Pontefract WF8 2NS
Received 5 Jul 202019 Grange Rise Hemsworth Pontefract WF9 4TW
Received 6 Jul 202063 Peel Street Horbury Wakefield WF4 5AN
Received 6 Jul 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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