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76 Duke Of York Street Wakefield WF1 3PG
Single storey rear extension with a maximum projection of 4.3m, a maximum height of 4.0m and a maximum eaves height of 2.8m
Glenmore House Cambridge Street Castleford West Yorkshire WF10 5BH
Existing use of the whole property as a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) within Use Class C4, providing accommodation for up to six unrelated occupants sharing communal facilities. The lawful use re
36 Station Road Ossett Wakefield WF5 8AY
Replacement first floor windows
26 De Lacy Avenue Featherstone Pontefract WF7 6AY
Single storey side extension
Clarke Hall Aberford Road Wakefield WF1 4AL
Fell T1 Beech; Fell T2 Beech; Remove Dead Limb from T3 Ailathus; Fell T4 Sycamore.
10 Vickers Avenue South Elmsall Pontefract West Yorkshire WF9 2LN
Proposed two storey extension to side
2 Garden Street Castleford West Yorkshire WF10 5AN
Rear dormer extension
333 Castleford Road Normanton WF6 1QU
Proposed single storey extension to side and rear
92 Pinderfields Road Wakefield WF1 3PH
Removal of overhanging branches (approx. 40-50% of the tree canopy) from T10 Ash
1 Langdale Drive Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7PX
Single storey rear extension and first floor side/front extension
47 Victoria Avenue Wakefield WF2 9QL
Single storey extension to rear
12 Springfield Rise Lofthouse Wakefield West Yorkshire WF3 3FP
Single storey rear extension
10 The Courtway Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7NT
Fell 1 Sycamore Tree
Parcel 1 & 2 (Phase 4A) Land Off Neil Fox Way City Fields Wakefield
Re-discharge of Condition 30 (Boundary Treatments) from approved application 23/01153/FUL
Unit 20 Unit 18 To 20 Langthwaite Road Langthwaite Grange Industrial Estate South Kirkby Pontefract WF9 3AP
Formation of new car park and associated works.
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When Wakefield Metropolitan District Council refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, raw rate
28.8%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
29.2%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
0.4 percentage points below expected. Wakefield Metropolitan District Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
654 appeals counted, 604 judged either way (174 allowed, 430 dismissed), 50 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-07 to 2026-06.
Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.
| Appeal type | Cases | Judged | Allowed | This council | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Appeal | 262 | 250 | 85 | 34% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 193 | 192 | 52 | 27.1% | 35.6% |
| Enforcement Notice | 83 | 72 | 6 | 8.3% | 13.5% |
| Tree Preservation Order | 39 | 31 | 10 | 32.3% | 20.6% |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 29 | 29 | 8 | 27.6% | 33.3% |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 17 | 16 | 6 | 37.5% | 36.9% |
| Environmental | 8 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | 5 | 5 | 2 | 40% | 25% |
| Community Infrastructure Levy Appeal | 3 | 3 | 0 | Too few judged | 25.2% |
| High Hedges | 3 | 1 | 1 | Too few judged | 28.5% |
| Rights of Way Opposed Orders | 3 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| Advertisement Appeal | 2 | 2 | 1 | Too few judged | 36% |
| Rights Of Way - Schedule 14D | 2 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| Tree Replacement Notice | 2 | 1 | 1 | Too few judged | 31.9% |
| Commercial Appeals Service (Adverts) | 1 | 1 | 1 | Too few judged | 27.6% |
| Common Land | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| Rights of Way Modifications | 1 | 1 | 1 | Too few judged | 100% |
“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.
Beside what the council collected from developers, this is what central government confirmed: schemes in the area with grant agreed under the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.
Source: Homes England, schemes confirmed under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, published on GOV.UK as transparency data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as at 31 March 2025, the publication's own cut-off, so later schemes are not in them. Grant requested is the publisher's own figure at the point grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by the local authority name in the publication, which carries no planning reference.
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.
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You can also browse the council's own planning register on the official Wakefield Metropolitan District Council planning portal.
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