How to apply for planning permission

The Local Validation List sets out the documents you will need to submit with your planning application. Following the adoption of the Wakefield District Local Plan 2036 on 24 January 2024, the Council has undertaken a review of the current Local Validation List.

The main purpose of the review is to ensure that the list aligns with the new Local Plan, but all existing requirements have also been reviewed. This consultation draft includes changes to existing requirements. It also reflects changes in national planning policy and guidance, and the introduction of new requirements – such as Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG).

The consultation is open for four weeks, from Friday 3 May 2024 to 5pm on Friday 31 May 2024.

Download the Proposed Local Validation List.

If you have any comments to make on the proposed list, you can submit these by: emailing devcontrol@wakefield.gov.uk (please quote 'Local Validation List consultation' in the subject box) or writing to:

Wakefield Council Planning Services, Development Management, Wakefield One, Burton Street, Wakefield, WF1 2EB.

Applying for planning permission

We encourage applications to be submitted online via the Planning Portal.

Submitting via the Planning Portal enables you to:

• Identify the correct planning application form and to complete form on-line
• Attach your drawings and documents on-line
• Buy site maps on-line
• Calculate the planning fee using the on-line fee calculator
• Pay for your application online if you choose

The Planning Portal has Guidance notes to create and submit an application online.

Please note your electronic files (drawings, and supporting documentation) should be no bigger than 5MB. Please refer to our Electronic Files Guide and the Planning Portals Tip to help get applications validated quicker.

If you are submitting your application on paper, then please provide only one copy of all forms, plans and other supporting documents. Paper forms are downloadable on the Planning Portal or can be found below. This does not mean that you have to submit your application online.

When making a planning application to Wakefield Council, all of the information in the Validation Checklist must, where relevant, be submitted with the application - See Checklists below.

Notice 1 (Owner/Agricultural Tenant Notification)

Please note; if someone else owns, or is an agricultural tenant of, any part of the site to which your application relates then 21 days before making an application you need to notify all other owners/agricultural tenants by downloading and sending them a completed 'Notice 1' notice.

Application forms and checklists

We have provided a list of downloadable PDF checklists, you can find download paper forms on the online planning portal.

Checklists

• Householder applications
• Full and outline applications
• Reserved matters approval
• Removal or variation of condition
• Details reserved by condition
• Listed building and Conservation applications
• Advertisement
• Lawful development applications
• Non-material amendment
• Agricultural notifications
• Telecommunications
• Demolition
• Work to trees
• Hedgerow removal

Applications

• Certificate of Lawfulness of proposed works to a listed building
• Modify or discharge a section 106 obligation

See also National Validation Requirements and Local Validation Requirements for further guidance on what should accompany a planning application. See also Streamlining the Planning Application Process document.

Applications for Listed Building Consent or applications for sites which are in conservation areas or affect historic assets require a Heritage Statement to be submitted. For guidance on the content required for these statements please see Brief for Heritage Statement.

Please refer to our Electronic File Guide if you are submitting your application electronically.

Planning Portal Support is provided by the Planning Portal.

If you have any specific queries about completing the form or providing the necessary information, please contact us via: devcontrol@wakefield.gov.uk.

Other considerations

You should also think about other requirements you might need to fulfil which may include: Building Regulations.