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.
3,369 approved · 341 refused · 172 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land South Station Road South Elmsall Pontefract
Received 9 Apr 2025Caravan At Greenfield Road Normanton Wakefield WF6 2FA
Received 9 Apr 202592 Wood Street Castleford WF10 1LP
Received 12 Apr 2025Castlegate Stables Castlegate Stanley Wakefield WF3 4FA
Received 14 Apr 20252 Gawthorpe Lane Kirkhamgate Wakefield WF2 0SR
Received 15 Apr 2025Wharfedale Drive Normanton WF6 2RA
Received 16 Apr 2025Waterside Park Business Hub Neil Fox Way City Fields Wakefield
Received 16 Apr 2025The Old Court House Wood Street Wakefield WF1 2EL
Received 16 Apr 2025Rear Of 23 23 Market Place Pontefract WF8 1DS
Received 22 Apr 2025Rear Of 23 23 Market Place Pontefract WF8 1DS
Received 22 Apr 2025Bell Street (Land At) Upton Pontefract WF9 1LE
Received 24 Apr 2025Unit 9 & 10 Ray Winfield Industrial Estate Wakefield Road Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7AA
Received 24 Apr 202599 Esther Avenue Wakefield WF2 8BY
Received 28 Apr 2025Boat Yard Heath Wakefield
Received 28 Apr 2025Willowdene Rowley Lane South Elmsall Pontefract WF9 2JP
Received 28 Apr 20252 Spring Lane New Crofton Wakefield WF4 1JS
Received 28 Apr 202514 Hillgarth Knottingley WF11 0JZ
Received 29 Apr 2025Marrtree Business Park Thomas Maddison Lane Wakefield WF4 3GH
Received 29 Apr 2025Wakefield Trinity Wildcats Doncaster Road Wakefield WF1 5EY
Received 30 Apr 2025Unit 1 South Baileygate Pontefract WF8 2LN
Received 30 Apr 2025Plot South Of 47 Gordon Street Wakefield WF1 5AT
Received 30 Apr 2025110 Pontefract Road Featherstone Pontefract WF7 5AP
Received 1 May 2025Carleton Community High School Green Lane Carleton Pontefract WF8 3NW
Received 6 May 2025149 Lower Oxford Street Castleford WF10 4AQ
Received 2 May 2025Records 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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