Yorkshire and The Humber · District

Wakefield

Wakefield approved 91.9% of the applications it decided, 4.9% above the England average.

Approved

91.9%

England 87%

Decided on time

89.3%

Inside the statutory period

Applications a year

1,129

Decided in the reporting year

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Against the country

More permissive than the average.

The England benchmark is 87%. It is the share of decided applications that were approved, so a withdrawal counts as neither. Source: MHCLG Live Table P120A (England, rolling 12-month).

What we hold, and what we do not

Wakefield

91.9%

England

87%

Standard-method local housing need: 923 dwellings a year.

The rules here

What this authority decides against.

An application is judged against the adopted development plan unless material considerations say otherwise. This is that plan, and the levy that comes with it.

Local planWakefield Local Plan
Community Infrastructure LevyCharging schedule adopted

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Wren reads the plan, the policies and the charging schedule on this page and answers from those. Every answer links the source it drew on, so you can check it against the council’s own document.

What Wren does here

8.1% of applications here are refused.

Wakefield decided 1,129 applications in the reporting year, and refused about 8.1% of them. A refusal is usually a document problem rather than a scheme problem: the policy that governs it was not addressed, or the evidence it asks for was not there.

Wren drafts against Wakefield Local Plan, a chartered planner reads the draft and signs it under their own indemnity, and a case manager files it and chases it. A householder application is £499, and Wakefield's own statutory fee is separate and paid by you directly to them.

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