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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.
3,312 approved · 336 refused · 168 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
71 Northgate Wakefield WF1 3BS
Received 12 Oct 2021Land Off Neil Fox Way Neil Fox Way Wakefield WF1 4FY
Received 26 Nov 2021Montana Foxholes Lane Normanton WF6 2PE
Received 13 Dec 2021Land Off Neil Fox Way Neil Fox Way Wakefield WF1 4FY
Received 19 Jan 2022Land Off Neil Fox Way Neil Fox Way Wakefield WF1 4FY
Received 19 Jan 20222 Castle View Pontefract Wakefield WF8 1EH
Received 3 Feb 2022New Inn Public House 144 Shay Lane Walton Wakefield WF2 6LA
Received 12 Apr 2022Rock Inn Rock Hill Castleford Wakefield WF10 4RD
Received 20 Apr 2022City Fields Phase 4B Wakefield
Received 24 May 2022Land Adjacent West Close Station Road Normanton WF6 2NB
Received 30 May 2022Ossett Fire Station The Willfred Ossett Wakefield WF5 9EE
Received 1 Jun 2022Bradley Street Castleford WF10 1HR
Received 13 Jun 2022Darrington Quarry Stubbs Lane Knottingley Wf11 0AH
Received 16 Jun 2022LAND SOUTH OF WAKEFIELD B SUBSTATION AND EAST OF NEIL FOX WAY, WAKEFIELD, WF1 5DB
Received 5 Jul 2022Land At Woolley Colliery Road (Land Off) Wakefield S75 5RY
Received 5 Jul 2022Moxons Grange Santingley Lane Crofton Wakefield WF4 1EW
Received 18 Jul 2022Birkwood Farm Birkwood Road Normanton WF6 2JE
Received 18 Jul 2022Land To East Side Pineapple Hill Wakefield Road Warmfield Wakefield
Received 26 Jul 202265A Stockingate South Kirkby Pontefract WF9 3PE
Received 28 Jul 2022Land Adjacent To Pontefract Sport And Social Club Chequers Close Pontefract WF8 2TF
Received 26 Aug 2022Manor Farm Bungalow Watchit Hole Lane Thorpe Audlin Pontefract WF8 3HF
Received 31 Aug 2022Former Castleford Community Learning Centre 78 Bridge Street Castleford WF10 1RB
Received 7 Oct 2022112B Queens Park Drive Castleford WF10 3DQ
Received 17 Oct 2022Land Off Nevile Drive The Grove Walton Wakefield
Received 30 Jan 2023Records 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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