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26/01365/CPL - Certificate Proposed Lawful Use or Dev Approved

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for the proposed use as childrens nursery (Use Class E part (f)). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 02:59

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Application progress

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Received

3 Aug 2026

✓

Validated

12 Aug 2026

✓

Approved

30 Sept 2026

Approved on 30 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 1 Oct 2026

Documents 5

Site constraints 10

In flood zones plus climate change

Inside the extent flood zones 2 and 3 could reach with climate change: the Central allowance for the 2080s on rivers, the Upper End allowance for sea level rise to 2125. From rivers. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Councils use it to decide when a flood risk assessment and the sequential test are needed. It is indicative and does not show whether a particular property will flood.

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 ↗

Habitat network: Restorable Habitat

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 4; Coalfield, development low risk area; Priority habitat 6 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh; Inside the Wakefield built-up area; Flood defence 47 m away (embankment, designed for a 1 in 20 year flood); Green belt 94 m away: South and West Yorkshire; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. 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: Certificate Proposed Lawful Use or Dev
Postcode: WF2 7BJ
Received: 3 Aug 2026
Validated: 12 Aug 2026
Ward: Wakefield Rural
Parish: Crigglestone
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 7 Oct 2026
Decision: Application Approved
Decision date: 30 Sept 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 49 days from validation, 22 days faster than Wakefield's median of 71 for changes of use. Approved, as 90% of changes of use here are.

This one49d

Council71d

UK56d

38%decided within 8 weeks

90%approved

80decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Wakefield in the last twelve months, from validation. Wakefield decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 1 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15118507
Planning Portal ref: PP-15118507
Statutory expiry: 7 Oct 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

1 nearby application 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