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26/01836/FUL - Full Application Awaiting decision

Proposal

Reconstruction of fire damaged commercial building Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 02:33

Application progress

✓

Received

12 Oct 2026

✓

Consultation

15 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 7 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 9 Jan 2027 and 21 Jan 2027, from Wakefield's recent commercial and major works.

Comments are open until 11 Nov 2026

Comment on this application ↗

Documents 5

Site constraints 5

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea

Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

Flood map ↗

Air quality management area: Wakefield City AQMA

The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.

Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.

Council record ↗

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Also on the record

Coalfield, development low risk area; Inside the Wakefield built-up area.

Not affected

Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 15 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Wakefield
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: WF1 5QY
Received: 12 Oct 2026
Validated: 12 Oct 2026
Ward: Wakefield West
Parish: North Wakefield
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 7 Dec 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

Decision outlook

Day 16 of the 56-day target. Wakefield usually decides commercial and major works by day 97.

target

prediction

Day 1681 days to the predicted decision (day 97)

29%decided within 8 weeks

94%approved

38decided in the last year

Plota live figures for commercial and major works decided by Wakefield in the last twelve months, from validation. Wakefield decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 23 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15263015
Planning Portal ref: PP-15263015
Consultation: 15 Oct 2026
Comments by: 11 Nov 2026
Site or press notice: 21 Oct 2026
Statutory expiry: 7 Dec 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

4 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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Wakefield

Planning Authority Score

3.6/10

Below average

#217 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Wakefield is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #223 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 56% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Frequently extends decision deadlines

expect longer than the statutory limit

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Wakefield decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

92%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #95 of 296

95%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #94 of 296

53%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #223 of 296

56%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #256 of 296

89%

Minor dwellings approved

79 decided (1-9 homes)

92%

Major dwellings approved

24 decided (10+ homes)

85%

Change of use approved

74 decided

1,084

Total decisions

88 refused in the year to March 2026