Consultation letter from WMDC to SOS
Planning Casework Unit
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
1st Floor
Coburg House
Mayflower Street
Plymouth
PL1 1DJ
0303 444 8041
pcu@communities.gov.ukOur ref: 20/02249/FUL
Date: 22 December 2021 Dear Sir or Madam
Service Director, Planning and Transportation: Bronwen Knight Wakefield One
PO Box 700
Burton Street Wakefield
WF1 2EB
Typetalk calls welcome
CONSULTATION WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE UNDER THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (CONSULTATION) (ENGLAND) DIRECTION 2021 IN RESPECT OF A RESOLUTION TO APPROVE THE FOLLOWING PLANNING APPLICATION FOR GREEN BELT DEVELOPMENT:
Application Ref: 20/02249/FUL
Applicant: Newmarket Lane Ltd
Description: Full planning application for the development of two storage and distribution warehouses (19,105 sq. m and 18,260 sq m.) (Use Class B8) together with ancillary offices, lorry and car parking, hard-standing, yard, drainage, landscaping and associated infrastructure and engineering works and a new pedestrian and cycle route from the B6135 to the Trans Pennine Trail.
Site: Plot 8 Land South Of Newmarket Lane, Stanley, Wakefield, WF3 4BU
This letter represents a formal consultation with the Secretary of State as required by paragraph 10 of the Town and Country Planning (Consultation) (England) Direction 2021. Please acknowledge receipt of this consultation and confirm the dates on which the 21 day consultation period will begin and end (if the conclusion of the consultation is that the Secretary of State does not wish to intervene).
The proposal is Green Belt Development, as defined by the Direction, as it is for inappropriate development within the Green Belt which consists of the provision of a building where the floorspace created by the development is more than 1,000m2. The application is also an EIA application, as defined by the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment)
Regulations 2017.
Wakefield Metropolitan District’s Council’s Planning and Highways Committee resolved to approve the application at the Committee Meeting of 16 December 2021 for the reasons and subject to the planning conditions and obligations set out in the attached Committee Report.
Details of the Committee Meeting are included on the Council’s Website at:
http://mg.wakefield.gov.uk/ieListDocume ... 4965&Ver=4The Committee Report sets out both the Council’s reasoned conclusion on the potential significant effects of the development upon the environment (concluding that the development would be environmentally acceptable) and the reasons why the Council considers that Very Special Circumstances exist warranting a departure from the Development Plan.
Full details of the application including application form, requisite notice, submitted plans, consultation responses, representations, environmental statement and further environmental information are available on the Council’s Public Access for Planning website via the following link:
https://planning.wakefield.gov.uk/online- applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=QIGDSJQQIO200&activeTab=summary
Please also find attached for ease of reference a copy of the Committee Report, which explains the material considerations which the authority consider indicate a departure application should be determined otherwise than in accordance with the development plan, together with the submitted location plan, site plan and elevations drawing.
I hope that the above is sufficient in order for you to respond to this consultation; however if you
require any further information, please do not hesitate to ask.
Yours sincerely
Michael Eaglestone
Major Projects Officer
Development Management
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council Tel: 01924 303396/ 07795 497761
Email:
meaglestone@wakefield.gov.uk