Bridge House Great North Road Wentbridge Pontefract WF8 3JJ Data via plota.co.uk

26/01001/TCA - Notification of Tree Works in Cons. Area Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

Crown Reduce 1 Maple and 1 Acer trees by 25% and Crown Lift to 3 metres. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
9 Jun 2026
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Validated
10 Jun 2026
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Approved
15 Jul 2026

Approved on 15 Jul 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 15 Jul 2026

Documents 3

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision Notice Decision Notice · 15 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF Case Officer Report Case Officer Report · 15 Jul 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATIONFORMREDACTED Application Form · 9 Jun 2026 View ↗

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Site constraints 4

Green belt: South and West Yorkshire
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm.
Air quality management area: A1 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 ↗
Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England 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
Notification of Tree Works in Cons. Area
Postcode
WF8 3JJ
Received
9 Jun 2026
Validated
10 Jun 2026
Ward
Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton
Parish
Wentbridge
Case officer
Show
Target decision
22 Jul 2026
Decision
Application Approved
Decision date
15 Jul 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 35 days from validation, 13 days faster than Wakefield's median of 48 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 61% of tree and landscaping works here are.

99%decided within 8 weeks
61%approved
103decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14997644
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

12 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
1 Magnolia - Crown Lift above adjacent public footpath and Crown Reduce entire canopy by…
25/01955/TCA
2025 Approved
Discharge of condition 3 (Materials and Window Schedule) from approved application 25/003…
25/00391/SUB01
2025 Approved
Replacement of existing windows with new PVC-U windows
25/00391/FUL
2019 Approved
T5 Lime - Crown lift to 5m; T6 - Crown lift to 5m
19/02098/TPO
2019 Approved
T2 Horse Chestnut - Fell
19/02096/TPO
2019 Refused
T1 Lime - Crown lift to 5m, crown thin 20%
19/02097/TPO
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2023 Approved
Wentbridge Hotel Great North Road Wentbridge Pontefract WF8 3JJ
External alterations and change of use of existing Groomsman Lodge (to rear of main Hotel…
23/01991/FUL
2024 Approved
Highwood House Great North Road Wentbridge Pontefract WF8 3JJ
Fell 1 Dead Beech Tree - 5 Day Notice
24/01574/TPO
2022 Approved
Wenthill Farmhouse Great North Road Wentbridge Pontefract WF8 3JJ
Erection of a single storey rear extension
22/01853/LBC
2022 Approved
Wenthill Farmhouse Great North Road Wentbridge Pontefract WF8 3JJ
Single storey extension of sun lounge to rear
22/01646/FUL
2019 Approved
Wenthill Farmhouse Great North Road Wentbridge Pontefract WF8 3JJ
Crown lift to 3.5m, remove dead wood and 10% crown thin on T1 Willow and reduce T2 and T3…
19/00634/TCA
2017 Approved
Wentbridge Hotel Great North Road Wentbridge Pontefract WF8 3JJ
Remove door and block up existing reception external entrance and form new entrance door…
17/03257/FUL
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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings