Bretton Village Cricket Club Park Lane Bretton Wakefield WF4 4JU Data via plota.co.uk

26/00608/FUL - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Construction of batting lanes Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

13 Apr 2026

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Validated

19 May 2026

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Consultation

19 Aug 2026

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Approved

18 Sept 2026

Approved on 18 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 24 Sept 2026

Documents 13

Site constraints 10

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. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Registered park or garden: Bretton Hall

Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

Historic England ↗

Local nature reserve 185 m away: Bretton Country Park

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

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

3 listed buildings within 150 m

Nearest: Water Pump Niche in Wall Immediately West of Garden Wall to No 26, Grade II, 60 m away · 3 Grade II

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

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Historic England ↗

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 4; Coalfield, development low risk area; Inside the West Bretton built-up area; Priority habitat 31 m away: Deciduous woodland; 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 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: Full Application
Postcode: WF4 4JU
Received: 13 Apr 2026
Validated: 19 May 2026
Ward: Wakefield Rural
Parish: West Bretton
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 18 Sept 2026
Decision: Application Approved
Decision date: 18 Sept 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Hampton Design Contractors

How this decision compares

Decided in 122 days from validation, 25 days slower than Wakefield's median of 97 for commercial and major works. Approved, as 94% of commercial and major works here are.

This one122d

Council97d

UK57d

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 24 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14809459
Planning Portal ref: PP-14809459
Consultation: 19 Aug 2026
Comments by: 2 Sept 2026
Site or press notice: 18 Jun 2026
Statutory expiry: 14 Jul 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2018 Approved

(1) Conversion of existing garage to larger Bar Area, (2) Side extension to form new gara…

18/00329/FUL 28 Jun 2018

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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2016 Approved

Yorkshire Sculpture Park Park Lane Bretton Wakefield WF4 4LG

Discharge of Condition 2 from approval 15/01834/LBC

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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

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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