Wakefield planning applications
SiteLens tracks and classifies every planning application submitted to Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, updated daily. Wakefield Metropolitan District Council received 434 planning applications in the last 90 days, 17 of them major schemes. 88% of the applications it decided were approved, with a median decision time of 58 days.
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Recent applications in Wakefield
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St Thomas A Becket Catholic Secondary School Barnsley Road Wakefield WF2 6EQ
Secondary school redevelopment with majority demolition, Wakefield, full application stage. Replaces most buildings with a 5,900 sqm two- and three-storey block, plus parking, landscaping and a sub-station. Demolition, groundworks, structural frame, drainage and M&E packages lead, with hard…
DemolitionGroundworksStructural frame
Theatre Royal And Opera House Drury Lane Wakefield WF1 2TE
Theatre refurbishment and extension, Wakefield, full application. Refurbishes 2,097 sqm Theatre Royal with partial demolition, a West Wing second-floor extension and auditorium alterations. Demolition, structural steel, roofing, glazing and M&E rearrangement are the packages for specialist…
DemolitionBrickworkSteel
Theatre Royal And Opera House Drury Lane Wakefield WF1 2TE
Listed theatre refurbishment and West Wing extension, Wakefield, at consent stage. Adds a second-floor West Wing extension, rooftop plant and new bar and WC areas across 2,097 sqm of part-demolished space. Demolition, masonry, steel for the new lift and M&E rearrangement suit specialist…
DemolitionBrickworkRoofing
Carleton Furniture Group (Former) Mill Dam Lane Pontefract WF8 2NS
70-dwelling Pontefract housing scheme, Section 73 variation pending. Revises approved plans and housetypes on the former Carleton Furniture site across 2.72 hectares, at amendment stage. Revised housetype packages reopen timber frame, roofing and drainage procurement, and the layout change may…
13 Cheapside Wakefield WF1 2SD
Listed church conversion to apart-hotel, Wakefield, listed building consent stage. Converts the former Still Water Church at 13 Cheapside into C1 apart-hotel accommodation through internal and external alterations. Heritage-sensitive joinery, M&E and wet-room drainage fit-outs suit specialist…
Fit-outM&EJoinery
14 Snydale Avenue Normanton WF6 1SS
Single detached dwelling new build, Normanton, full application stage. Erects one detached home on a Snydale Avenue plot in Normanton, at full application stage. Groundworks, brickwork, roofing and M&E packages suit small local builders, with drainage connections needed early.
GroundworksBrickworkRoofing
190 Baghill Lane Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 2HE
Single-storey café building, Pontefract, at full application stage. Creates a new standalone café unit on Baghill Lane, with floor area not stated. Groundworks, masonry, roofing and shopfront glazing are the packages for local subcontractors, with catering M&E and kitchen fit-out to follow.
GroundworksBrickworkRoofing
13 Cheapside Wakefield WF1 2SD
Apart-hotel conversion, Wakefield, full application stage. Converts an existing Cheapside building to a Class C1 apart-hotel with internal and external alterations. Bathroom and kitchenette fit-out, M&E services and joinery packages will carry the work for local fit-out contractors.
Fit-outM&EJoinery
Water Lane Farm Water Lane Woolley Wakefield WF4 2JQ
Single self-build replacement dwelling after demolition, Woolley, full application. Replaces an existing dwelling and outbuildings at Water Lane Farm with one new home. Demolition, groundworks and drainage open the job, with brickwork, roofing and M&E packages open to local trade contractors.
DemolitionGroundworksBrickwork
29 Jenkin Lane Horbury Wakefield WF4 6EZ
Bungalow-to-two-storey remodel with basement, Horbury, full application. Raises the roof to add a first floor, plus two-storey front and side extensions, a basement with rear terrace, a detached garage and render, at full application stage. Basement groundworks, steel, roofing and render packages…
GroundworksBrickworkRoofing
Victoria Nurseries Wakefield Road Streethouse Pontefract WF7 6BS
Rooftop solar PV notification, Pontefract nursery site. Panels fitted to existing roofs at Victoria Nurseries, Streethouse, submitted as a permitted-development solar notification rather than a full application. Installers, mounting-system suppliers and electrical contractors for grid connection…
RenewablesM&E
68 - 72 Carlton Street Castleford WF10 1DB
Castleford shopfront alterations and 17-unit rear condenser plant, full application. Minor shopfront works and seventeen rear roof condensers at full application stage. Refrigeration and HVAC installers and shopfront glazers are the packages to pitch for.
GlazingM&E
Timberland Sheds Anderson Street Pontefract WF8 4DB
Temporary five-year timber shed display yard, Pontefract, full application. Change of use of 0.1ha to external sales display with a new ancillary office shed and boundary landscaping, part-retrospective. Groundworks for hardstanding, joinery on the office shed and hard landscaping behind the weld…
GroundworksJoineryHard landscaping
15 Westfield Road Horbury Wakefield WF4 6DN
Five-home conversion scheme, landscaping reserved matters, Horbury. Approves landscaping for four flats at 15 Westfield Road and one dwelling at 17-21 under the outline permission. Hard landscaping, boundary treatment and planting packages open once the scheme moves to build, suiting paving and…
Hard landscaping
Calders Main Street Badsworth Pontefract WF9 1AF
Two-storey side and rear extension with new porch, Badsworth. Extends a Badsworth house over the existing garage with a rear extension, at full application stage. Brickwork, roofing and groundworks lead, with steel, glazing and hardstanding packages for local trades.
BrickworkRoofingGroundworks
Planning appeals in Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
An allowed appeal is one the council lost. Some kinds of appeal succeed far more often than others, so Wakefield Metropolitan District Council is compared with the national rate for its own mix.
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, raw rate
28.8%
of judged appeals were allowed
Expected for this mix of appeals
29.2%
national rates applied to this caseload
0.4 percentage points below expected. Wakefield Metropolitan District Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record predicts.
654 appeals counted, 604 judged either way (174 allowed, 430 dismissed), 50 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-07 to 2026-06.
By kind of appeal
| Appeal type | This council | National | Cases | Judged | Allowed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Appeal | 34% | 28.8% | 262 | 250 | 85 |
| Householder (HAS) | 27.1% | 35.6% | 193 | 192 | 52 |
| Enforcement Notice | 8.3% | 13.5% | 83 | 72 | 6 |
| Tree Preservation Order | 32.3% | 20.6% | 39 | 31 | 10 |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 27.6% | 33.3% | 29 | 29 | 8 |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 37.5% | 36.9% | 17 | 16 | 6 |
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | 40% | 25% | 5 | 5 | 2 |
10 more appeal types with fewer than 5 judged
| Appeal type | This council | National | Cases | Judged | Allowed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental | None judged | Not published | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Community Infrastructure Levy Appeal | Too few judged | 25.2% | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| High Hedges | Too few judged | 28.5% | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Rights of Way Opposed Orders | None judged | Not published | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Advertisement Appeal | Too few judged | 36% | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Rights Of Way - Schedule 14D | None judged | Not published | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Tree Replacement Notice | Too few judged | 31.9% | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Commercial Appeals Service (Adverts) | Too few judged | 27.6% | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Common Land | None judged | Not published | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Rights of Way Modifications | Too few judged | 100% | 1 | 1 | 1 |
How we calculate this
Judged means allowed or dismissed. Withdrawn, invalid, split and unrecorded appeals are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. Expected applies the national rate for each appeal type to this council's own caseload. National rates by type are in The State of UK Planning.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database on GOV.UK, not the council's own planning register. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Money behind development in Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council's developer contribution register is not yet in SiteLens.
Affordable housing grant in Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
What central government confirmed: schemes in the area with Homes England grant agreed.
- Shared ownership3 homes
Source: Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, GOV.UK transparency data, as at 31 March 2025. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Grant requested is the figure when grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by local authority name.
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council approval rates by application type
Share of decided applications approved in the last 12 months.
- householder93% (326 decided)
- other76% (193 decided)
- residential85% (62 decided)
- commercial90% (51 decided)
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