Wakefield Residential Design Guide
Supplementary Planning Document
Initial Consultation
Statement of Consultation
Prepared by Integreat PLUS
January 2017
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
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1.1. Who was Consulted
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1.2. Engagement Methods / Activities
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2. Representations Summary
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2.1. Tables of Key Findings
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2.2. Answers and Responses to the Initial Consultation Questions
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2.3. Printed Survey Responses
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2.4. Online Survey Responses
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3. Appendix A
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3.1. Engagement Methods and Materials
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3.2. Interactive Exhibitions
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3.3. Printed Housing Survey
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3.4. Main RDG Survey
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3.5. Online Survey
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3.6. Exhibition Advertisements
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3.7. LDF Advertisements
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3.8. Exhibition Photos
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4. Appendix B
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4.1. Specific Consultation Bodies as Listed in Regulation 2 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations
2012
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4.2. Consultee List
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1. Introduction
This Statement of Consultation has been prepared in accordance with Regulation 12 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning)
(England) Regulations 2012. The Regulations require that as part of the preparation of SPD’s a Statement of Consultation should be prepared.
The Statement sets out what was done to consult with the district and other stakeholders detailing the methods used and the people involved to
meet the requirements of regulation 12 for the Initial Consultation on the Wakefield Residential Design Guide (RDG) Supplementary Planning
Document (SPD) which took place in January and February 2016.
In addition to the Regulations the Council has a Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) which explains how the community and
organisations and stakeholders can take part in the process of developing the SPD. The SCI was adopted by the Council on 8 February 2006.
It sets out how and which persons and bodies the Council will engage with, when preparing SPD’s.
1.1 Who was consulted?
The Councils SCI sets out how the community and organisations can take part in the planning process. The list of organisations and people to
be consulted in relation to SPD documents are:
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Specific organisations
General organisations
Government departments and additional organisations
Interested parties
Residents and residents groups
Appendix B lists the organisations, persons and bodies notified of the consultation and invited to make representations, based on the SCI.
Those who have asked to be kept informed of the progress of planning documents are also detailed.
Section 33A of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, as amended by section 11 of the Localism Act, introduced a duty to
cooperate in relation to the planning of sustainable development. Regulation 4 of the 2012 Town and Country Planning (England) Regulations
lays out the bodies that must be consulted under the provisions of the Act. These bodies were all informed of the consultation and invited to
make representations.
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1.2 Engagement Methods/ Activities
Type
Formal notification of where the
documents may be inspected
and how representations may be
made.
Informal notification of where the
documents may be inspected
and how representations may be
made.
Where documents were available
for inspection.
Method
Evidence
Over 1000 bodies and persons notified in writing (email or letter) of
the consultation and invited to make representations – using the
Councils consultation software ‗Objective.
List of consultees
Public notice in the Wakefield Newspaper Group – Wakefield
Express (22/01/16), Pontefract and Castleford
Express (21/01/16)
Scanned images of the notices
Information posters were displayed throughout the consultation
period at a number of swimming pools, community centres, libraries,
district housing offices and markets.
Copy of the poster
Council‘s website at:
http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/residents/planning/policy/supplementary- Screen shot
documents
Objective - Council‘s online consultation portal at:
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http://consult.wakefield.gov.uk/portal
In electronic and hardcopy format at:
Wakefield One Customer Access Point, Wakefield and The Grove,
South Kirkby. Libraries listed below at their normal opening times:
Airedale Library
Castleford Library
Crofton Library
Featherstone Library
Hemsworth Library
Horbury Library
Knottingley Library
Normanton Martin Frobisher Library
Ossett Library
Pontefract Library
Sandal Library
South Elmsall Library
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Social Media
Notification of community
representatives and contacts.
Interactive Exhibitions
Questionnaires
Online Questionnaires
Stanley Library
Wakefield Library
Ackworth Community Library
Havercroft and Ryhill Community Library
Kinsley and Fitzwilliam Community
Upton Community Library
Walton Community Library
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/mywakefield
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MyWakefield
Carousel on Council‘s homepage at:
http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/default.htm
Cabinet Member Briefing: 11.01.16
All 63 local councillors representing the 21 wards in the district were
notified of the consultation by email on 21/01/16
All town and parish councils were notified formally on 21.01.16
Staffed interactive exhibitions were located in Wakefield One and
Castleford Library which ran from 8th- 18th February 2016
Printed questionnaires were made available at consultation
exhibitions and around 350 copies were circulated to 19 local new
housing estates throughout the District
Made available so that people could complete the survey remotely
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2. Representations Summary
In all, there were 35 representations received on the RDG Initial Consultation.
These comprised of:
24 Representations to the Main RDG Consultation Survey
7 Printed Questionnaires
4 Online Questionnaires
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2.1 Tables of Key Findings
Q1 - The Council believes that the Residential Design Guide (RDG) should provide guidance for the design of residential development in the
District. What issues should the RDG cover?
1. Density was the most popular issue with 6 responses
2. Mix of house types, Green Infrastructure, Materials, Parking, Scale and Sustainability was the 2nd most common all with 5
responses
3. Character, Layout, Open / Green Space, Design and Access was the 3rd most common with 4 responses each
What should the RDG cover?
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Q2 - Do you think there are parts of Wakefield District which have important residential designs and heritage characteristics? If so what are
these details and in what town or village can they be found?
1. Of the representations that agreed and provided examples; Pontefract Town Centre, Conservation Areas, Georgian Suburbs,
Victorian Suburbs, Newmillerdam, College Grove and St. John’s were the most common with 2 representations each
Areas of important design or heritage characteristics
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Q3 - What do you think are the main issues and features that need to be considered when designing homes and the spaces around them
including, for instance:- (Parking, Garden Space, Materials, Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Bin Storage, Other)
1. Garden Space was the most popular issue with 11 representations
2. Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Bin Storage and Materials were the 2nd most common response with 10 representations
3. Historic plot / Boundary Outlines was the 3rd most popular response with 8
Important features when designing homes and spaces
around them
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Q4 - What do you think are the main issues and features that need to be considered when designing residential areas including, for
instance:- (Car Parking, Public Open Space, Footpaths, Linkages to Services and facilities, Other)
1. Public Open Space was the most popular with 9 representations
2. Footpaths were the 2nd most popular response with 8 representations
3. Car Parking and Linkages were the 3rd most common response with 7 each
Main issues and features for designing residential areas
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Q5 - Do you think there are opportunities to develop new housing types and designs reflecting local character and places in
Wakefield?
If so what might these be and are there other towns and cities in Yorkshire that could provide inspiration?
1. Wakefield’s local character was the most popular response with 3
2. Green Infrastructure was the 2nd most common representation with 2
Residential Design Inspirations
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Castleford's Voysey
Arts building
Local Character
Green Infrastructure Wakefield Vernacular
Outside Yorkshire
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Q6 - The Council considers a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is not required as set out in section 5 of the Initial Consultation
Document. Please indicate below if you agree a SEA is not required. Agree/Disagree
If you consider one is required please set out what you consider the exceptional circumstances are requiring one to be undertaken.
1. Most AGREE a SEA is not required with 11 representations. It should be noted that all the statutory environmental consultation bodies
responded to the consultation. The Environment Agency and Historic England agreed with the Council’s assertion that an SEA was not
required for this SPD. Natural England did not respond directly to the question but have not indicated in their response that they
consider an SEA is required.
2. 4 representations DISAGREE that a SEA is not required
1. Flooding is the circumstance most feel would require a SEA
2. Climate change, Energy and Traffic are the other considered circumstances
SEA is not required
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Circumstances requiring SEA
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Agree
Disagree
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Flooding
Climate Change
Energy
Traffic
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2.2 Answers and Responses to Initial Consultation Questions
The Initial Consultation document asked a series of questions the answers to which are laid out below along with the response of the Council
and Integreat Plus.
Comment
Organisation/Individual
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
Reference
QU.1: The Council believes that the Residential Design Guide (RDG) should provide guidance for the design of residential development in
the district. What issues should the RDG cover?
RDGIC1
Ms Sue Watton
There is a distinct lack of new private housing for an aging
Comment noted. WMDC seeks to
population. Developers fail to provide single storey housing as it
encourage a greater mix of housing
does not reap profits. Detached and semi-detached single storey
types suitable for all people in
properties should be a compulsory element in the planning of new
accordance with Paragraph 50 of the
developments.
National Planning Policy Framework.
The Councils Strategic Market
Housing Assessment will also be used
to ensure that the correct mix of
housing types is provided in the
district.
RDGIC2
Natural England
When drafting [urban design] SPDs that may result in impacts to
Comment noted. This advice has
the natural environment, we would expect the local planning
been used when formulating the
authority to consider the following:
consultation draft of the RDG.
Green Infrastructure
This type of SPD should, where possible, provide a clear focus in
relation to Green Infrastructure (GI) provision. Where possible such
provision should be incorporated into new development.
The NPPF states that local planning authorities should plan
‘positively for the creation, protection, enhancement and
management of networks of biodiversity and green infrastructure’.
Urban green space allows species to move around within, and
between, towns and the countryside. Even small patches of habitat
can benefit movement. Urban GI is also recognised as one of the
most effective tools available to us in managing environmental
risks such as flooding and heat waves. The NPPF recognises the
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Comment
Reference
Organisation/Individual
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
contribution GI can make to the challenges posed by a changing
climate, ‘when new development is brought forward in areas which
are vulnerable, care should be taken to ensure that risks can be
managed through suitable adaptation measures, including through
the planning of green infrastructure’ (Para. 99).
Greener neighbourhoods and improved access to nature may also
improve public health and quality of life and reduce environmental
inequalities. Urban green spaces will provide varied ecosystem
services and will contribute to coherent and resilient ecological
networks.
Natural England has developed a GI signposting document, which
may be of assistance; it includes detail in relation to GI provision.
http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images/GI-signposting_tcm611961.pdf
It is important to emphasise the multi-functional benefits of GI to
biodiversity, amenity, recreation and health and wellbeing and the
need to consider GI in urban design and demonstrate how GI and
green and open spaces could link to the wider GI network and
interlink with access, the landscape and biodiversity.
There may be significant opportunities to retrofit green
infrastructure in urban environments. These can be realised
through: green roof systems and roof gardens; green walls to
provide insulation or shading and cooling; new tree planting or
altering the management of land associated with transport
corridors (e.g. management of verges to enhance biodiversity).
The protection of natural resources, including air quality, ground
and surface water and soils needs to be considered in all urban
design plans.
We also suggest you may wish to draw upon The Town and
Country Planning Association’s "Design Guide for Sustainable
Communities" and their more recent "Good Practice Guidance for
Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity"
Integreat / Council's Response
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Comment
Reference
Organisation/Individual
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Biodiversity enhancements
This SPD should encourage the taking of opportunities to
incorporate features which are beneficial to wildlife into final
proposals for development. The Council may which to consider
whether it is appropriate to provide guidance on, for example, the
level of bat roost or bird box provision within the built structure, or
other measures to enhance biodiversity in the urban environment.
An example of good practice includes the Exeter Residential
Design Guide SPD, which advises (amongst other matters) that a
ratio of one nest/roost box per residential unit is considered
appropriate. This is in accordance with Paragraph 118 of the
National Planning Policy Framework. Additionally, we would draw
your attention to Section 40 of the Natural Environment and Rural
Communities Act (2006) which states that ‘Every public authority
must, in exercising its functions, have regard, so far as is
consistent with the proper exercise
of those functions, to the purpose of conserving biodiversity’.
Section 40(3) of the same Act also states that ‘conserving
biodiversity includes, in relation to a living organism or type of
habitat, restoring or enhancing a population or habitat’.
Landscape enhancement
This SPD may provide opportunities to enhance the character and
local distinctiveness of the surrounding natural and built
environment. Landscape characterisation and townscape
assessments, and associated sensitivity and capacity assessments
provide tools for planners and developers to consider new
development and ensure that it makes a positive contribution in
terms of design, form and location, to the character and functions
of the landscape and avoids any unacceptable impacts.
For example, it may be appropriate to seek that, where viable,
trees should be of a species capable of growth to exceed building
Integreat / Council's Response
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Comment
Reference
Organisation/Individual
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
height and managed so to do, and where mature trees are retained
on site, provision is made for succession planting so that new trees
will be well established by the time mature trees die.
RDGIC3
Yorkshire Water
RDGIC4
Walton Parish Council
Other design considerations
The SPD should consider the impact of lighting on landscape and
biodiversity. The NPPF states (paragraph 125) ‘By encouraging
good design, planning policies and decisions should limit the
impact of light pollution from artificial light on local amenity,
intrinsically dark landscapes and nature conservation". We advise
that this is a topic that should be covered by any design related
SPD.
Strategic Environmental Assessment/Habitats Regulations
Assessment
In principle SPDs should not be subject to the Strategic
Environmental Assessment Directive or the Habitats Directive
because they do not normally introduce new policies or proposals
or modify planning documents which have already been subject to
a Sustainability Appraisal or Habitats Regulations Assessment.
However a SPD may occasionally be found likely to give rise to
significant effects which have not been formally assessed in the
context of a higher level planning document. This may happen, for
example, where the relevant high level planning document
contains saved policies within a saved local plan which predates
the need to carry out a SA or HRA and therefore no higher tier
assessment has taken place. If there is any doubt on the need to
carry out a SA or HRA a screening assessment
should be carried out.
Yorkshire Water has no comment to make on the Residential
Design Guide.
Walton Parish Council wishes to make general comments in
connection with the forthcoming Residential
Design Guide, SPD.
Comment noted.
Applicants are required to consider the
relevant policies in the Walton
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Comment
Reference
RDGIC5
RDGIC6
RDGIC7
Organisation/Individual
Persimmon Homes
West Yorkshire
Archaeology Advisory
Service (WYAAS)
West Yorkshire Ecology
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
In addition to the anticipated requirement for proposed housing
schemes to address matters such as the distance between
buildings, materials, parking etc., the Parish Council would like the
RDG to make specific reference to the need for planning applicants
to have full regard to the relevant policies in the Walton
Neighbourhood Plan.
The two policies which have the greatest bearing on design issues
are:Policy 4 – Historic Core
Policy 13 – New Windfall Housing Sites.
Character, Materials, Layout, Density, Scale of buildings.
West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service (WYAAS) are
WMDC's professional retained advisers on the historic
environment & holders of the West Yorkshire Historic Environment
Record.
Neighbourhood Plan when applying
for planning permission only within the
Walton Neighbourhood Plan Area.
Q1. Issues that the RDG should cover: It should include the need
to maintain historic character; use of materials; height of buildings
(with particular concern for maintaining the setting of heritage
assets); density; massing.
The Residential Design Guidance needs to set out a vision which
considers the expected life of the dwellings. It is tempting to think
of sustainable development as properties which last 250 years and
increase in their commercial value until the very end of their useful
life. Whilst this may be the case for key landmark buildings, most
property is swept away by subsequent redevelopment long before
this stage. As building technology improves properties seem to
become dated much more rapidly and the value is often in the land
the building stands on rather than the structure itself. As population
increases there will be a greater need for buildings and land to be
recycled and redeveloped. We should perhaps be thinking of a 50
to 100 year time frame with a greater emphasis on recyclable
materials with dwellings which have a lower environmental
Comment noted.
Comment noted. The issues listed
have been covered in the consultation
draft of the RDG.
Comment noted.
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Comment
Reference
Organisation/Individual
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
footprint.
It is important that there are features planned into the residential
environment which provide a degree of continuity and sense of
place. Nature conservation features can provide such continuity,
perhaps because they are relatively immovable such as rivers,
lakes, woodlands or escarpments or simply because they have
been valued by communities across the generations as quiet
recreational open space.
Wildlife is an important component in environmental enhancement
for people in any community. It may not always be recognised and
appreciated when it is there, but it becomes notable when it
vanishes and a housing estate become sterile.
The residential design guidelines need to include measures which
provide for a wildlife rich environment for people. These should
include:
 Retain and enhance higher quality habitat features, provide
for appropriate on-going management and ensure that they
remain an asset to the new communities.
 Providing for a local Wildlife Habitat Network within new
developments (public open space, trees, hedges, garden
corridors, living walls, green roofs, bat roosts and bird
boxes).
 Provide sustainable access to semi-natural greenspace
both within and beyond the development by walking,
cycling or bus.
 Recognise roof water run-off as a valuable resource and
incorporate collection systems which feed into toilet
systems and/or can be used for gardens or car washing.
Channel surface water run-off to flood water attenuation
wetlands such as wet woodland, fen and grassland rather
than underground pipes.
 Ensure that all landscaping schemes avoid species listed
as invasive within the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as
Integreat / Council's Response
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Comment
Reference
RDGIC 8
Organisation/Individual
Michael Ray
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
amended) – note this list is more extensive than the primary
legislation.
 Use a high proportion of locally native species within any
public open space.
 Designs need to minimise disturbance to wildlife habitat
from issues such as noise, light spillage and tipping
(including garden waste).
Does anyone think it is better to design houses/apartments so that
their impacts on the Planet Earths Environment is zero?
The use of safest construction materials – such as the least
flammable and to be water permeable where appropriate.
Is timber/wood a good material to utilise?
To harvest natural outdoor resources – such as solar, outdoor
infra-red (heat) and rainwater?
What masonry and other insulation materials provide the maximum
insulation effect, which includes for windows, walls, roof, ground
floor slabs?
How is it right to achieve the least negative environmental impact
to the planet earth's environment?
What are the best construction materials to do the residential
designs - the least flammable materials
When is it right to allow construction materials to allow water
permeability? for bricks, masonry concrete?
Is timber or wood alright as a construction material?
Refer to the photo of the new houses with the solar panels on the
roof from the RDG- there is quite a lot of spare unused roof surface
which has not been used for solar panels. I wish you to maximise
the solar photovoltaic surfaces and some water heating panels
provision.
Rainwater harvesting, compost toilets, use of masonry, concrete
construction materials that provide the most insulation capableness to prevent heat transfers from inside the house/office to the
outside. The right kind of design for the windows, triple glaze with
Integreat / Council's Response
Comment noted.
Specific guidance relating to energy
efficiency and renewable energy will
be included within the Residential
Design Guide. However it should be
noted that with regard to housing
standards for issues such as energy
efficiency national planning policy
limits what can be achieved at the
local level.
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Comment
Reference
Organisation/Individual
RDGIC9
Historic England
RDGIC10
G Marshall
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
the right insulation blinds.
The use of heat pumps (air to air) to transfer reduced grade heat
from outside back into the house/office.
How to maximise use of renewable energy of the site? The
construction site? Can pavements, road surfaces and vertical
house/other constructed infrastructure surfaces like walls be
utilised as solar photovoltaic surfaces?
The RDG should be informed by a thorough characterisation of the
areas, suburbs and settlements within the Wakefield District,
paying particular attention to the locations and groupings of
designated and undesignated heritage assets. From this
characterisation, the key components of the vernacular
city/town/village-scapes should be identified and illustrated with
maps (showing heritage assets, historic field boundaries,
landscape features), photographs and drawings, demonstrating the
morphology, density and layouts of settlements, together with
typical scales, layouts, designs, architectural styles, detailing and
materials. This information will inform the specific guidance. Where
development is proposed in areas of ill-defined or negative
character, the characterisation and guidance should be used to
foster positive placemaking within the new development.
The Residential design guide should cover the following because
planning officers and councillors seem unaware of the wider
factors with the result that inappropriate or inadvisable
developments are often given planning permission. That cause
social, health and general unhappiness for the occupants of new
developments and existing residents:
 Sites
 Public engagement
 Loss of public facilities to others
 The impact of new buildings/groups of buildings on existing
area and residents;
 Internal space standards, at present too small;
Integreat / Council's Response
Comment noted.
The inclusion of this work may fall
outside the initial scope of the RDG.
The Yorkshire Pattern Book will be
used to assist in gaining an
understanding of characterisation
across the district. CAAs will also be
used where relevant and up to date.
Comment noted.
However it should be recognised that
the RDG SPD will not deal with issues
already covered by other Local Plan or
National planning policies such as loss
of facilities and internal space
standards.
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Comment
Reference
Organisation/Individual
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
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RDGIC11
RDGIC12
Wakefield Civic Society
Notton Parish Council
Better space standard;
Better provision for car parking;
More communal play space;
New developments should not reduce or eclipse public
amenity space;
 Should take into account environmental impact factors;
 Should be designed to withstand possible flooding;
 Should be suitable for people with disabilities;
 Should be designed taking into account the more extreme
weather conditions that have developed in recent years;
 Aesthetics and design.
The RDG should cover all aspects and types of residential design:
 Housing style – we prefer to see a mix of styles and
provision from apartments to terraced housing and from
starter homes to ‘executive style’ houses.
 Parking – which should be off-street
 Street scape and landscaping
 Green space – not enough green space is allowed for in
many new developments
 Provision of leisure facilities and play space, particularly for
children.
It should include new build and conversions and refurbishments as
well as laying down standards for sub-division of existing
properties, and the creation of HMOs.
Having said that, if this is to be no more than guidance, then it will
probably fail in its ambition. It must have some teeth and planners,
developers and the council should see it as binding when
considering planning applications.
Notton response : it should cover two major issues: a) the balance
between the protection of Green spaces and Green belt land and
the use / regeneration of Brown field sites – with a focus
encouraging development of the latter; b) it should also address
Comment noted.
The Residential Design Guide is being
produced with the aim of improving the
design of housing throughout the
District. The previous RDG SPD was
awarded no weight in recent
applications due to its age and
uncertainty about the consultation that
it underwent during its preparation.
The updated RDG is being produced
to comply with the planning
regulations and the Council’s
Statement of Community Involvement
and will therefore carry significant
weight upon adoption.
Comment noted. However it should be
noted that the RDG will not be used to
determine decisions with regard to
green space protection, the green belt
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Comment
Reference
RDGIC13
RDGIC14
Organisation/Individual
Mr M Ayub
Mr A McGuinness
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
demographic issues – most new developments appear to be
‘premium’ priced to optimise returns to developers. We feel there
must be a requirement for affordable housing and designs and
access which caters for an increasingly aging population.
or the mix of houses on developments
(apart from where this compromises
high quality design). This will be done
by using local and national planning
policy. The Council currently prioritises
the protection of the Green Belt and
green spaces and encourages
Brownfield development in accordance
with the adopted policies of the Local
Development Framework and the
National Planning Policy Framework.
Housing density and type.
All new housing developments should provide open space and
recreational facilities which are related to the scale, type and
density of development, and to the nature of its surroundings.
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
The RDG will not affect the
designation of conservation areas in
the district.
Location and setting
Build design/Character and detailing - Position, Distance from
neighbouring boundary, mass, scale, height, materials,
replacement dwellings and ancillary buildings within dwellinghouse
curtilage.
Conservation areas. Retain E30, E31, E32, E34, E35
E33 states that the council will adopt a more flexible approach
where appropriate. Future policies need to make it quite clear what
will and what won’t be acceptable.
Housing Layout – particularly spare plots, side gardens and
backland/infill development. These can have a significant impact
upon neighbouring properties and visual amenity
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Comment
Reference
Organisation/Individual
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Space about dwellings minimum standards, aspect related design,
calculated design criteria and garden space
Accessible Housing – desirable features
Greenbelt and agricultural buildings falling into Prior Approval
(Change of Use) category - See
http://www.torridge.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=13485&p=0
Landscaping, Natural Landscaping and boundary treatments
Open space requirements
Access, Layout, Circulation, Parking and Garaging – shared
private drives/maintenance and management. Establish principles
and objectives
The most secure place to park a car is within a garage. However
integral or detached garages are not always appropriate,
particularly for higher density development and in rural locations,
as they can result in sites becoming overdeveloped or making
greenbelt sites appear urbanised.
Access to undeveloped land
Build Form, Materials and Sustainability
House Extension Policy
Change Of Use Guidance (see Greenbelt) see:-CIEEM - Position
Statement on Permitted Development Rights and Ecology
Natural Environment and Biodiversity: see:-
Integreat / Council's Response
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Comment
Reference
Organisation/Individual
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
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RDGIC15
Local Access Forum
(LAF)
RDGIC17
Mrs J Harrison
RDGIC18
J Buckley
Partnership for Biodiversity in Planning Ecological
assessment
 ALGE/CIEEM Biodiversity Toolkit for planners
 Trees/hedgerows
 Natural features
 Wildlife Sites
Sustainability
 Movement
 Surface Water
 Energy Conservation
 Security and crime
 Privacy
 Position
Lighting
The Local Access Forum (LAF) is a statutory advisory body, their
function being to advise on the improvement of public access to
land in their area for the purposes of open-air recreation and
enjoyment of the area. We have confined our response to this
role.
In respect of the Residential Design Guide the LAF advises that
this should cover :
 the accessibility for pedestrians and cyclists
 the connectivity with existing residential areas and to local
services and facilities
 the design and attractiveness of the environment.
Sustainability, Parking, External space, Associated infrastructure
e.g. schools.
Design for the ‘community’. Design to encourage people to
communicate with their neighbours, get them out of motorcars - out
of their steel box. Get them speaking to people, ’good morning’ and
chat for a moment – no matter how brief. Encourage people to
congregate. It used to be religion that brought people together on
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
Comment noted. The consultation draft
RDG emphasises the need for design
at the pedestrian scale, and the
importance of including green amenity
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Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
a Sunday. What can it be now?
RDGIC20
Environment Agency
RDGIC21
Health and Safety
Executive (HSE)
Also design for the larger community. How can development
benefit the local area? For example, can it improve the local
infrastructure, instead of increasing pressure on it? Instead of
creating fenced in development, can’t it embrace the local
community in which it blunders its way e.g. can it improve the local
rights of way network.
We recommend that the RDG actively promotes making space for
green infrastructure/water in residential developments. Sustainable
construction methods should also be incorporated into the RDG.
Residential developments will need to adapt and mitigate to the
impacts of climate change
Thank you for your request to provide a representation on the
Wakefield District Residential Design Guide consultation
document. When consulted on land use planning matters, HSE
where possible will make representations to ensure that compatible
development within the consultation zones of major hazard
establishments and major accident hazard pipelines (MAHPs) is
achieved.
We have concluded that we have no representation to make on
this occasion. This is because your consultation request is not
concerned with the potential encroachment of future development
on the consultation zones of major hazard establishments or
MAHPs. As the request is not relevant for HSE’s land use planning
policy, we do not need to be informed of the next stages in the
adoption of the
Wakefield District Residential Design Guide.
Planning authorities are advised to use HSE’s Planning Advice
Web App to verify any advice given. The Web App is a software
version of the methodology used in providing land use planning
Integreat / Council's Response
areas etc. in new development which
provide new meeting places not
dominated by cars, which will
encourage informal networks.
Comment noted.
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Organisation/Individual
RDGIC22
Mr J Gravett
RDGIC23
Selby Council
RDGIC24
Denise Rowlinson
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
advice. It replaces PADHI+. Please see the advice note below for
further information on the Web App including accessing the
package
As covered in the planning document.
The public should be given the opportunity to comment at the
planning stage, and their comments taken into consideration.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the emerging
residential design guide and urban design framework. It is noted
that both documents are at a conceptual / early stage of
development and officers from Selby District Council have no
detailed comments to make at this stage.
Availability of nursery and primary schools and most importantly
doctors surgery. Also green spaces for children to play and
footpaths. Do not build household waste recycling centres yards
from a new housing estate
Integreat / Council's Response
The public are given the opportunity to
comment on applications via WMDC
Planning Portal. Developers may
provide other opportunities for public
comments at earlier stages of the
design process.
Comment noted. However it should be
recognised that the RDG will not be
used to assess if a site is a
sustainable location for development
(except where this may relate to
design quality)
QU.2: Do you think there are parts of Wakefield District which have important residential designs and heritage characteristics? YES/NO
If so what are these details and in what town or village can they be found?
RDGIC1
Ms Sue Watton
YES. Pontefract town centre has beautiful buildings which are
Comment noted.
ignored by many. New developments in the area should reflect the
heritage.
RDGIC5
Persimmon Homes
Yes
Comment noted. The consultation
Town/City Centres (historic cores) - Wakefield, Ossett, Pontefract.
draft RDG emphasises the importance
Several areas (Castleford, Featherstone, Normanton) where
of design, which reflects local
historic core apparent but need for investment is greater and
character and heritage.
overrides character issues.
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Organisation/Individual
West Yorkshire
Archaeology Advisory
Service (WYAAS)
RDGIC7
West Yorkshire Ecology
RDGIC8
Michael Ray
RDGIC9
Historic England
RDGIC10
G Marshall
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Yes.
Q2. Within Conservation Areas (see Conservation Area Appraisals
for details); within historic urban cores.
WYAAS are currently completing a Historic England-funded,
detailed historic landscape characterisation of West Yorkshire,
which will be made available to Wakefield Planning Authority for
their use. This details the visible survival of historic character in the
present landscape of the entire area of the Wakefield District & will
indicate where historic character survives & what it is. The report is
currently (Feb 2016) in preparation & the final product should be
available early 2017. Speak to Sarah Mawson in WMDC Planning
for details or contact myself.
Yes.
Not aware of specific examples.
Yes.
Wakefield Cathedral is made of stone.
The character of the District varies widely from rural villages and
hamlets to large urban areas, and from settlements associated with
industries such as coal mining to Georgian, Victorian and
Edwardian suburbs. The elements which contribute to the distinct
identity of these places need to fully evaluated and understood
through characterisation. Many of the District’s historic areas have
been designated as
Conservation Areas. A key tool for understanding the elements
which contribute to the character of those parts of the District which
fall within one of the Conservation
Areas are the Conservation Area Appraisals. However, only a
small number of the Conservation Areas have Appraisals and for
those that do, most of them are, now, several years old. Therefore,
it would be an opportune time to review and update these
documents.
Yes.
In the city and across the district. We need to 'green' the area, and
Integreat / Council's Response
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
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RDGIC11
Wakefield Civic Society
RDGIC12
Notton Parish Council
RDGIC13
Mr M Ayub
RDGIC14
Mr A McGuinness
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
that should be a characteristic of our city, towns and villages. We
should impose park and public space standards on our city, towns
and villages that must be satisfied for development to take place.
Yes.
Wakefield has some fine Georgian and Victorian properties
although many of the larger buildings have been converted into
flats. We also have some well-laid out public sector provided
housing estates – such as Eastmoor and Lupset, which provide
tree-lined avenues, green spaces and gardens that epitomised the
very best design standards of their time. Around the city centre,
there are some very attractive village settings such as at Heath,
Newmillerdam, Walton, Notton, and parts of Sandal. We need to
preserve these characteristics where they exist, of course, as they
are an important part of our heritage and enhance the reputation of
the city and the wider district but we need to see them as examples
of the past rather than the model for the future.
Notton response: there are considerations linked to listed buildings,
the RDG should also recognise the effect of any development on
‘character’ areas. We have 5 listed buildings in Notton but much of
the Parish has established properties – using Notton as an
example of how new developments need to be sympathetic to
existing buildings if any development is in close proximity to such
buildings.
College Grove area: generally an area with two storey
development and new developments should not exceed this.
Yes.
Visual integration requires the harmonisation of new development
with its surroundings by reflecting the form, character and materials
of existing buildings, especially where there is an existing high
environmental quality and strong design character such as in or
near Conservation Areas. The achievement of integration and
harmony need not rely on copying past styles and architectural
details. The most satisfying results can often be achieved by re-
Integreat / Council's Response
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
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RDGIC17
Mrs J Harrison
RDGIC18
J Buckley
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
interpretation of historic forms expressed in a contemporary
manner respecting existing character yet enhancing the overall
environment.
One possibility is to work with communities within Conservation
Areas and similar rural areas to develop parish plans which draw
on all the features that make these places unique (see Silkstone
Parish Design Statement http://www.silkstoneparishcouncil.gov.uk/SilkstonePc/design_statementparish_plan_-4505.aspx )
Yes.
Victorian terraces- stone and brick detailing, urban uniformity - in
Stanley Rd, Eastmoor Rd and College
Grove area, St Johns
It would be nice if Wakefield had an identifying characteristic. In
some places e.g. the Cotswolds, Northamptonshire or the
Pennines this is the underlying stone. But what marks out Whitby
for example. It must be the Abbey on the headland and the jumble
of houses down to the harbour. I am not sure the houses have any
particular characteristic. Wakefield is a product of the later part of
the industrial revolution, which has an English style rather than a
Wakefield one. Going back beyond the unifying effect of the
industrial revolution things were not planned, they just happened.
This resulted in a jumble. This is attractive and is what people
want – the good old days. Some degree of planning is good (see
answer to 1 above). Bath Crescent is world famous, but it is the
combination of houses in their surroundings: like a large public
square. For these sort of places design is important.
On a domestic scale, overall design is far less important. Why not
leave the domestic scale to be a jumble. People will not build
something that is ugly. Regeneration of itself becomes
monotonous (and therefore ugly?)
Why not let people build what they like?
Integreat / Council's Response
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
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RDGIC24
Organisation/Individual
Mr J Gravett
Denise Rowlinson
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
Yes.
Comment noted.
St John's, Wakefield - Georgian and Victorian Buildings.
Newton Hill / Outwood/Stanley - characteristic terrace housing. No
high rise buildings and very few flats.
West Bretton - attractive stone buildings (spoilt by some mid-20th
century developments)
Woolley, Newmillerdam - comments as above.
General - All designs should have a focus on the centre of the town
or village. Any development should make sure the towns and
villages keep their identities and do not coalesce.
The cluster of houses built in Morton Crescent off Ferrybridge
Comment noted.
Road has a variety of housing designs. Unfortunately they are all
built too close to each other.
QU.3: What do you think are the main issues and features that need to be considered when designing homes and the spaces around them
including, for instance:- (Parking, Garden Space, Materials, Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Bin Storage, Other)
RDGIC1
Ms Sue Watton
Parking
Comment noted.
Garden Space
Sustainability
Energy Efficiency
Bin Storage
RDGIC5
Persimmon Homes
Parking, Materials, Bin Storage,
Comment noted.
Parking - ensuring homes provide sufficient room for off street
parking, but also thinking about what type of home has what
parking requirements. For example current parking standards in
Wakefield require 3 parking spaces per 4 bed home. There are
several examples of 4 bedroom homes which
are essentially 2 double bedrooms / 1 single bedroom / 1 study and
requiring 3 parking spaces is over zealous and detracts from the
street scene and density of schemes.
Materials is a key constraint when considering the character of new
housing and agreeing details at an advanced stage can assist with
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RDGIC6
West Yorkshire
Archaeology Advisory
Service (WYAAS)
RDGIC7
West Yorkshire Ecology
RDGIC8
Michael Ray
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
providing accurate visuals for members of the public, consultees
and planning committees.
Bin storage is a key issue for mid terrace properties and a
consistent approach should be governed through the design guide.
All ticked.
Comment noted.
Parking - this needs to be adequate per household to avoid the
character of areas being detracted from by ranks of parked cars in
the street.
Materials - these should acknowledge the traditional character of
vernacular buildings in Wakefield District
Bin Storage - this should be adequate to avoid unsightly bins left
on the street & detracting from the character & amenities of an
area
Other - historic plot outlines & the fabric of early boundaries should
be retained within developments
Garden space. Sustainability. Energy Efficiency.
Comment noted.
Garden space - Bringing wildlife within easy viewing has benefits to
health and well-being.
Sustainability - Need to ensure that existing habitats are avoided
then maintained and enhanced as positive features within
development. Create more niches for wildlife from enhanced
habitat structures rather than sterile, soulless housing complexes.
Follow guidance in Landscape and Urban Design for Bats and
Biodiversity (Bat Conservation Trust August 2012)
Energy Efficiency - Need to design all buildings to have a south
facing orientation with space for photovoltaic panels/walls. Need to
follow Biodiversity for Low and Zero Carbon Buildings: A Technical
Guide for New Build (Bat Conservation Trust 2010, RIBA
Publishing)
Parking, materials, sustainability, energy efficiency and bins
Comment noted.
storage ticked.
Materials - I recommend the use of the right materials that provide
the correct maximum heat insulation quality and the right insulation
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Organisation/Individual
Historic England
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
that maximise this effect.
The use of nasa space shuttle insulation materials to super
insulate external windows, at least triple glazing for all windows,
the nasa space shuttle like insulation to be utilised with a shutter
that opens and closes. The space shuttle like insulation has a
much reduced U value and this means that the more the reduced
U value is, the less heat transfer there is from inside to outside. To
allow water vapour from the interior of the infrastructure to pass
through the insulation and any inner masonry can be safer to
prevent frost damage, when the insulation is water permeable this
insulation ought to be placed outside the main structural masonry
wall to allow interior water vapour to pass to the outside.
Otherwise, how is the water vapour going to get to the outside?
Sustainability and energy efficiency - outdoor rainwater harvesting,
compost toilets, how to design various infrastructure with the least
waste of heat from inside to outside? What kind of solar PV panels
are best to incorporate? Solar PV panels come in 3 main colours.
Garden space - include a greenhouse to enable vegetables to be
grown.
Bin Storage - try to maximise non-recyclable waste management to
try to achieve a zero waste management strata for all waste.
Parking - The parking is kept away from the homes, like the Dutch
Wohnerf principal so that children play as far as they can from the
car streets.
New homes should integrate well into the prevailing setting.
Comment noted.
Particular care should be taken to ensure that landscaping,
boundary treatment and the public realm relate appropriately to
their context. Ancillary functions such as garaging, microgeneration installations, bin storage, parking, and external meter
cupboards should be unobtrusively integrated into designs. Garden
space should be sited to take advantage of and to maximise
available daylight for the home, and be of a size appropriate to the
home and the existing character of the locality.
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RDGIC11
Organisation/Individual
G Marshall
Wakefield Civic Society
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
All ticked.
 Impact on other dwellings and groups of dwellings;
 Available infrastructure which includes parks, playgrounds,
buses schools, recreational facilities;
 Improved public green space standards.
All ticked.
There is a lack of residential provision within the city centre itself. If
more residential property could be provided in the city centre, this
would have a positive impact on local businesses and improve the
feel of the city centre which all too often closes down at around 5
pm. Local residents in the city centre will help to keep the city
awake, bridging the gap between daytime and night-time
economies. However, city centre accommodation needs to be of
good quality rather than shoddy conversions or pokey little flats.
In the not too distant past, developers were keen to build tiny flats
with little or no storage space in our city centres, targeted at young
professionals. We have some of these in Wakefield but the rage for
it diminished before things got too bad here. According to press
reports, some older people wish to downsize and move to
apartments in city centres where they are close to amenities and
have less need of their cars. Such ‘lock it and leave it’ properties
suit people who spend periods away from home, either on holiday
or because of work commitments, as, having no gardens, such
properties require little attention during the periods of absence. But
downsizing in this way does not necessarily mean a desire to loose
significant amounts of floor space – older people have
possessions, friends and grandchildren to accommodate so want
larger apartments with two or even three bedrooms in city centres
but no developers seem to want to provide these.
We do, of course, have a predisposition in this country to own
rather than rent property and that mind-set is further geared
Integreat / Council's Response
Comment noted.
Comment noted. WMDC aim to
encourage a greater mix of housing
types which are suitable for all people.
The Consultation Draft of the RDG
includes a section providing guidance
on the development of homes in
multiple occupation.
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Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
towards buying houses rather than flats. But unless people selfbuild, they can only buy what developers build and developers
want to play safe. The planning system seems to militate against
experimentation with new styles.
One current problem we are starting to see more and more of is
the conversion of unused commercial accommodation within our
city centres to create flats and HMOs. Again, this is being done
piecemeal with no coherent vision, removing commercial
properties from commercial as demand for shops and offices within
the city centre seems to be falling off. Some of these conversions
are creating accommodations that we regard as at best
unsatisfactory. We have similar concerns over the sub-division of
mature housing stock such as terraced houses close to the city
centre being into smaller units. These conversions create
additional pressure on on-street parking and often result in what
garden area there is being given over to the storage of multiple
wheelie bins.
While there is undoubtedly a need for one-bedroomed
accommodation that is affordable, we do not think this is the best
way to provide it.
RDGIC12
Notton Parish Council
Sustainability and energy efficiency should, of course, be a prerequisite of any planning approval incorporating the latest energy
saving and production technology. Solar panels, should, for
example, be built into the design rather than being seen as
something to be bolted on later. Quality standards such as Built for
Life and Active by Design should be incorporated into all new
schemes.
Notton response: this links to Questions 1 and 6 in our view. The
two issues being accommodation that provides affordable housing
options and caters for the elderly and the need for a more strategic
Comment noted. However it should be
noted that affordable housing
provision and infrastructure
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Organisation/Individual
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
review of local infrastructure for larger developments (road
junctions, speed limits, traffic calming etc.).
improvements outside of a
development site are considered using
existing policies in the Local
Development Framework and will not
be matters that the RDG will deal with.
Comment noted. It should be noted
that housing standards for energy
efficiency are now set in national
planning policy and that the Councils
Local Development Framework
contains a policy about renewable
energy provision in new development.
Comment noted. It should be noted
that housing standards for energy
efficiency are now set in national
planning policy.
RDGIC13
Mr M Ayub
All ticked (apart from other).
Homes designed with energy efficiency and renewable energy built
in; materials should reflect existing residential development: brick
construction.
RDGIC14
Mr A McGuinness
All ticked.
Integrate new development with the character of its surroundings.
Incorporate existing site features such as footpaths, trees and
hedgerows wherever possible.
Provide variety and contrasts between spaces, the more diverse
and distinctive the spaces, the easier it is for people to find their
way around and to have a sense of identity.
Create diversity in a logical way, for Example, focal points or
central nodes should have noticeably higher densities whereas it
may be appropriate to reduce densities at the edges of settlements
reflecting the traditional gradual transition between development
and countryside.
Identify those places where landmark buildings, distinctive
boundaries, or other design elements should be used to reinforce
the perceived spatial structure.
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Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Maximise the benefits of existing trees, hedgerows, and other
natural features, in public spaces or in public views.
Protect and use any heritage elements as assets within the layout,
notably archaeological sites, but a response to heritage could also
include use of historic boundaries, routes or field patterns in the
layout.
It will be important to ensure that new buildings are sustainable,
and essential that they do not adversely affect the amenity or
character of the neighbouring properties and the locality.
The Government has set stringent standards of 60% carbon
dioxide reduction by 2060. If this target is to be met then changes
in the building industry need to happen now.
Sustainability should be designed into any proposals at the earliest
opportunity. Sustainable design is concerned with ensuring that:  The construction of buildings minimises the amount of
resources and energy used, and waste, pollution and
carbon dioxide (CO2) produced;
 The materials generated and used for construction are
environmentally friendly;
 Any existing building fabric is re-used as far as possible;
 Buildings are energy efficient, reducing CO2 emissions;
 Buildings use renewable energy sources.
Energy efficiency can be achieved through the use of efficient
design and layout of new housing, for example through passive
solar design and sustainable construction. The use of renewable
energy also has its part to play. This design guide should seek to
ensure that all new residential development will incorporate high
Integreat / Council's Response
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Organisation/Individual
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
standards of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.
In designing for environmental performance, planning authorities
should, amongst other things, expect applicants to use landform,
layout, building orientation, building design and landscaping to
minimise energy consumption. Further considerations are
emphasised such as biodiversity, waste management and
sustainable urban drainage systems.
RDGIC17
Mrs J Harrison
Community involvement
It should be acknowledged the importance for the community to
have their say in development proposals and considers it will be
most effective during pre-application stage. Prospective applicants
should be encouraged to consult and involve the public during preapplication stage, especially on major or controversial development
proposals.
Early community involvement is regarded beneficial to applicants.
It facilitates the application process, as the prospective applicants
could understand local issues and concerns in advance. They
could then be able to negotiate and build consensus with the public
to avoid objections and subsequent delay during the formal
application stage.
Garden Space, Sustainability, Energy Efficiency.
Comment noted.
Limit parking provision to the minimum in inner city areas and
improve pedestrian links to encourage walking and the use of
public transport. Sustainable materials and energy efficient forms
and services are essential to show that Wakefield is moving
forward in the 21st century, appealing to more people and
providing something that few other towns / cities have. A variety of
garden sizes would appeal to the widest range of people e.g.
families, renters, young, old etc. - a mixed community is essential
for healthy neighbourhoods.
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RDGIC19
Organisation/Individual
J Buckley
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
In answer to this I would introduce Paul Chatterton, Professor of
Urban Futures, School of Geography, University of Leeds and his
book ‘Low Impact Living’; a guide to ecological, affordable,
community building – at page 165:
‘the design process is normally led by the residents and so it more
clearly responds to their needs and circumstances. This is one
place in the city where a greater sense of democratic participation
and ownership prevails over how the built environment
develops. One of the most notable features of cohousing design is
the absence of on-site vehicle access. It's literally a breath of fresh
air and is probably the one single planning aspect that could be
changed easily to transform neighbourhoods across cities. In
cohousing, gone are adopted highways that cut through and scar
neighbourhoods, active parking frontages (what's the obsession
with a view of your car?) and bewilderingly high parking ratios
(many suburban new-builds stipulate over two parking spaces per
dwelling). In cohousing, car reduction is combined with car
separation and car-free home zones to increase safety, interaction
as well as reducing carbon emissions related to car use. In come
pocket car parks located on the edge of sites which are heavily
landscaped, formal car pools and informal car sharing. This leaves
swathes of central land devoted to community amenities and
nature. Thus, in terms of design, residents are in control and have
an intimate connection with how the site is designed and evolves
around them.’
Homes:
standard,
energy efficiency of houses can be improved using a number of
measures:
o Facing south to take advantage of heat from the sun
o Roofs designed to take solar panels and or solar water heater
o Triple glazed, air tight windows
Integreat / Council's Response
Comment noted.
Comment noted. It should be noted
that housing standards for energy
efficiency are now set in national
planning policy.
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Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
o Allow possibility of installing air of ground source heat pumps
Space around homes:
a number of benefits for biodiversity, health and wellbeing and lead
to a reduction in flood risk, pollution and in summer, urban heat
island effect.
incorporated into the design of individual houses for example:
o Use of pervious surfaces paved areas around housing and low
traffic roads reduce speed of water infiltration
o Water butts to collect rainwater for use on gardens reduce
residential water use and reduce run-off rates.
RDGIC20
Environment Agency
RDGIC22
Mr J Gravett
use.
Design principles will need to focus on making sure developments
are resilient to the impacts of climate
Change.
Garden Space, Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Bin Storage
Other - views and vistas.
Parking - car ownership should be discouraged, in favour of public
transport.
Garden Space - This is extremely important, especially for families.
The modern trend of using front
gardens as car parks or of designing car parks instead of front
gardens (e.g. Butterfield Way, Newton Hill) should be avoided.
High rear garden fences can isolate neighbours from each other,
hedges are preferable.
Sustainability, energy efficiency - important but the effects on other
properties should be considered
(e.g. fans on gas flues can be very annoying).
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
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Organisation/Individual
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
Bins - no bin should be stored where it can be seen (they look
awful stored in the street). It is disappointing to note that Butterfield
Way, Newton Hill (a new development) the bins will be stored at
the end of the cul-de-sac, in full view of the street and surrounding
area.
RDGIC24
Denise Rowlinson
Views and Vistas -These are important. Developments should be
aligned so as views are preserved. This helps prevents a closed in
atmosphere which developments often produce (NM Butterfield
Way, Newton Hill is a good example of a preserved view to Lindale
Hill).
Sufficient space should be left for access by (mobility) scooters
away from car traffic. In many instances trees have been removed
and green spaces are non-existent
Comment noted.
QU.4: What do you think are the main issues and features that need to be considered when designing residential areas including, for
instance:- (Car Parking, Public Open Space, Footpaths, Linkages to Services and facilities, Other)
RDGIC1
Ms Sue Watton
RDGIC5
Persimmon Homes
RDGIC6
West Yorkshire
Archaeology Advisory
Service (WYAAS)
Public Open Space
Footpaths
Car Parking
Public Open Space
Footpaths
Linkages to Services and Facilities
All relevant and we cover all in design and access statements.
All ticked.
Historic street patterns & pedestrian routes should be retained.
Historic plot outlines & pedestrian routes should be retained.
Where redundant locally-significant historic buildings survive, they
should be retained within the larger development & converted in a
sympathetic manner, to add character & continuity to the
development.
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
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RDGIC7
West Yorkshire Ecology
RDGIC8
Michael Ray
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
Where good legibility of historic character survives, there should be
enhancement through positive management, including restoration
where appropriate. This might include, for example, maintaining
the historic urban structure within a new development by
maintaining road networks, boundaries, respecting urban grain,
form & legibility & the maintaining the identity of street frontages.
Careful consideration should be given to the siting of car parks &
other areas of hard standing, particularly where the historic urban
grain would be sensitive to the opening up of large open 'grey'
areas. Open, green areas should be sited to enhance the setting of
heritage assets, where appropriate. Memories of historic identity
could be retained in street naming, public art etc. Where
development is proposed, applicants should comply with the
National Planning Policy Framework (March 2012) by identifying
heritage assets & their significance at the pre-application stage.
Where planning permission is granted for development that directly
affects heritage assets, conditions should be attached where
appropriate to ensure that provision is made for the investigation of
the site's archaeological potential & for the preservation in situ or
recording of archaeological features or deposits.
Public Open Space.
Comment noted.
Public Open Space and Linkages to Services and Facilities need to
consider semi-natural greenspace provision with and around the
sites. This will contribute to health and well-being and education
agendas.
Car parking and footpaths ticked.
Comment noted.
Car Parking - not too near to houses, can the road surface contain
solar PV panels?
Footpaths - Beneath the footpath (transparent or opaque), put PV /
light brown. The internet has said Dutch cycle ways are using PV
surfaces beneath. A USA website talks of design of outdoor roads
where there are PV panels beneath. Footpaths to have a matt,
raised finish to be anti-slip.
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Comment
Reference
RDGIC9
Organisation/Individual
Historic England
RDG10
G Marshall
RDGIC11
Wakefield Civic Society
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
Residential areas should relate positively into the prevailing setting, Comment noted.
where it is of positive character, with car parking sited in
unobtrusive, but well surveillance locations.
All ticked.
Comment noted.
We should be building cohesive communities which involves much
more than thinking about the design of individual houses. We need
to think balance, so we should build eldercare homes, sheltered
housing. Example of not taking these things into account is that
Ackworth has 8,000 people, no community parks, very few
common open green spaces and playgrounds, poor public
transport. We need to look to facilities for living healthy happy lives
in a local environment with good transport links to the rest of the
Wakefield area. A recent planning application would see the
removal of green space, trees and communal facilities from a long
standing, carefully planned mini elderly housing and care cluster
and the imposition of a 6 foot brick wall for a view behind which
would be crammed sixteen family homes with traffic and loss of
quality of life an inevitable result. We should not be building tiny,
rabbit hutch homes, and with few ballrooms or even dining rooms,
spare rooms are often the key to healthy and happy people and
families.
All ticked.
Comment noted.
Provision of off-street parking and bin areas both in new builds and
conversions.
Provision of green spaces and places for children to play in new
housing schemes.
Provision of infrastructure and services – from roads to drains, and
from shops to school places and access to GPs and dentists.
Access to public transport
Too many new houses are being built on narrow plots but over
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Comment
Reference
Organisation/Individual
RDGIC12
Notton Parish Council
RDGIC13
Mr M Ayub
RDGIC14
Mr A McGuinness
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
three floors – these might be OK for younger people but they
present challenges to the elderly and disabled and will force the
occupiers if such properties to move out when they can no longer
manage the stairs. It might be better to build flats.
Can we as a society afford to continue the rather profligate use of
land, just because it is relatively cheap now, by building further and
further out from our town and city centres, often increasing demand
for car use, rather than looking for ways to concentrate
development in and close to city centres to achieve higher
densities?
Notton response : adequate and safe transport and traffic
Comment noted.
infrastructure
All ticked (apart from other)
Comment noted.
Connectivity to surrounding areas; sustainable transport options
should be prioritised; open space for children and general
recreation should be provided.
All ticked.
Comment noted.
The most lasting impression of any housing area is created by the
spaces between the buildings rather than just the houses
themselves. These spaces are defined by the buildings, the
landscaping, the gardens, the boundary treatments, the roads and
the footpaths. Roads and footpaths affect the arrangement,
spacing and appearance of the houses they serve, the size and
shape of gardens, the choice of planting, the location of open
areas and play spaces and the routes for public utility services.
Provide safe and convenient surroundings for the movement of
people, including those with restricted mobility and cyclists.
Create safe routes for pedestrian, cycling and vehicular movement.
Look to Europe for highway design incorporating traffic free cycle
links between residential centres and local amenities, city centres
and major transport links.
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Comment
Reference
Organisation/Individual
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
Keep vehicle flows and traffic speeds low in the vicinity of homes,
and minimise the danger and nuisance created by non-access
traffic.
Ensure that reasonable, and where possible direct, vehicular
access to dwellings is available, and enable easy access for public
transport and emergency vehicles.
Minimise the danger and inconvenience caused by indiscriminate
on-street parking.
RDGIC15
Local Access Forum
Allow for a diversity of spatial, architectural, and landscape
elements appropriate to the unique character of the site and its
surroundings.
Public open space, Footpaths, Linkages to services and facilities
and other – cycle provision ticked.
Comment noted.
Good quality, direct and attractive pathways segregated from
traffic, connecting to local facilities (schools, shops, bus stops etc.)
and giving access to the countryside or green space will encourage
walking and cycling and reduce the reliance on the car.
New residential areas should be integrated into the surrounding
neighbourhood with quality walking and cycle routes that connect
to the wider network of public paths and roads. The design of
residential areas should not result in ‘exclusive’ (enclosed) estates,
with one way in and out, as these encourage people to drive cars.
RDGIC17
Mrs J Harrison
Residents require access to paths, green space and the
countryside to exercise, walk the dog, jog, play etc.
Car Parking, Footpaths, Linkages to Services and Facilities.
Parking - see Q3. It is essential that facilities such as schools and
Comment noted.
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Comment
Reference
RDGIC19
Organisation/Individual
Yorkshire Wildlife Tax
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
doctors are provided as existing facilities are already overstretched
in the inner city areas.
Residential area design must include provision of green
infrastructure. Green infrastructure by design is multifunctional and
should include:
o Health and wellbeing benefits for residents, all residents should
be no more than a 10 minute walk from natural greenspace as
recommended in the nature and wellbeing act
(http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/naturewellbeingact)
o Sustainable drainage system water control elements. Inclusion of
SuDS elements in will reduce the run-off levels of new
developments and so the overall flood risk at the district level, as
well as providing pollution control. SuDS can be managed for
biodiversity delivering multi-functional benefits.
o Protection and enhancement for of ecosystems and biodiversity.
Greenspaces should be managed appropriately to enhance
existing habitats using native planting and create additional
ecological niches e.g. ponds and wetlands.
highest existing levels of biodiversity and should provide the
maximum level of connectivity between habitats.
trade-offs.
o Public access such as paths, cycle paths and areas for natural
play.
-designed paths and cycle paths, along with easy access to
public transport such as busses and trains will encourage use of
sustainable transport options.
Wakefield nature areas, areas of ancient woodland and areas with
high potential for biodiversity (see the Wildlife Trusts Living
Landscapes http://www.ywt.org.uk/living-landscapes)
Integreat / Council's Response
Comment noted.
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Comment
Reference
Organisation/Individual
RDGIC20
Environment Agency
RDGIC22
Mr J
Gravett
Individual
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
o When deciding the location of new developments the impacts on
areas of the development on areas of high biodiversity should be
considered decisions made following the mitigation hierarchy.
The RDG has the opportunity to promote multi-function green
infrastructure, e.g. adequate green space and effective water
management which reduces water pollution.
Car Parking, Public Open Space, Footpaths, Linkages to Services
and Facilities, Other.
Car parking - this should not be at the expense of abolishing
gardens. Cars should be discouraged.
Integreat / Council's Response
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
Public open spaces - these are important and should be a mixture
of types, i.e. grassed areas, shrub areas, woodland areas. They
should be in addition to playing fields and not used as dog loos.
More allotments should be provided.
Footpaths - These should keep their identity, i.e. a path with grass,
shrubs, and ideally a hedge at either side. The idea that a
pavement is a replacement for a footpath is not acceptable.
Linkages to services, facilities - it is essential that these are within
easy walking distance, shops, schools and public transport.
RDGIC24
Denise Rowlinson
Other:
1/Residential developments should not be next to industrial or retail
ones (otherwise it creates a lot of
noise especially at night)
2/Facilities should be provided for casual disposal of rubbish (litter
bins) and easy collection of rubbish.
3/More allotment facilities should be included.
4/Open views and vistas, as discussed in question 3.
Some of the new housing estates in Castleford are far too
Comment noted.
compact, leaving no space for privacy. Where are children
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Comment
Reference
Organisation/Individual
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Integreat / Council's Response
expected to play? Provision should be made for open spaces.
QU.5: Do you think there are opportunities to develop new housing types and designs reflecting local character and places in Wakefield?
YES/NO
If so what might these be and are there other towns and cities in Yorkshire that could provide inspiration?
RDGIC1
Ms Sue Watton
Yes
RDGIC5
Persimmon Homes
RDGIC6
West Yorkshire
Archaeology Advisory
Service (WYAAS)
RDGIC7
West Yorkshire Ecology
Yes
Housing layouts can be influenced through local character. It is
important not to try and replicate older styles of homes with new
build development but to meet the requirements of the modern
housing market. We would be resistive of any type of design guide
that seeks to resist the use of standard housetypes - Britain was
built on standard housetypes spanning a raft of building eras, and
we are within another very important era for delivering new
housing. It is important that design guides influence the character
of new housing through seeking well designed and landscaped
layouts. New buildings should reflect local character and there is
sufficient opportunity to do this through the design process. Rather
than pick on local areas for positive/negative aspects
developments such seek to reflect and respect the local character
of their own setting. The work should be done in the initial design
stages.
Yes.
Castleford's Voysey arts & craft housing could be used as
inspiration.
Comment noted.
Yes.
There are good opportunities to introduce green roof and green
wall technologies to soften the impact of development for people
and wildlife. This technology can also make very significant
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
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Comment
Reference
Organisation/Individual
RDGIC8
Michael Ray
RDGIC9
Historic England
RDGIC10
G Marshall
RDGIC11
Wakefield Civic Society
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
contributions to reducing surface water runoff. Other benefits can
include enhanced air quality and reduced wind speeds within
urban centres. See Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls (Nigel
Dunnett and Noel Kingsbury (2008) Timber Press.
Yes.
Zero harm to environment, eco housing with the correct amount of
solar PV panels, super insulated and some wind turbines of an
appropriated scale, compost toilets, grey water recycling, reed bed
water recycling without going to the sewage farm, rainwater
harvesting.
All the housing to have heat pumps / heat exchangers instead of
methane heating system. How to achieve the right space heating
for indoor spaces?
Is it right to locate heat exchanger coils for increased oC liquid
transfer near a central increased thermal mass wall within the
house?
Is masonry better than timber for house construction?
In line with Wakefield vernacular architecture which utilises brick
and masonry. Timber rots and is flammable, not good, are there
alternative materials to timber that are much better fireproofing
character, made of a carbon polymer material.
New housing types can and should be developed, with designs
both reflecting local character and employing cutting edge design
and technologies.
Yes.
Vernacular architectural features. There is also room for modern
design. Tastefully done and not crammed in is the key. I would like
to see green space to be part of our local stamp. This involves
responsible communal planning, incorporating parks and green
spaces into all designs.
Yes.
Too many developments are based on traditional designs arranged
around the ubiquitous cul de sac. They are retrospective and take
Integreat / Council's Response
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
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Comment
Reference
Organisation/Individual
RDGIC12
Notton Parish Council
RDGIC13
RDGIC14
Mr M Ayub
Mr A McGuiness
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
their inspiration from the houses of the 1930s. We have to ask why
this has to be. We appreciate they are a ‘safe bet’ for developers
but is this really the best that housebuilders can do? We have seen
many examples or real innovation from other parts of the world and
other parts of the UK but we are not enough of these examples in
Wakefield and we have to ask why this is. In part, it must be
because the developers are not being challenges sufficiently. We
should be looking outside Wakefield and Yorkshire to find the very
best examples in the world and setting our aspirations accordingly
to match these. In the 21 st century, we should be capable of
building something new and innovative in design rather than trying
to constantly recreate a 1930s ‘Metroland’ pastiche.
Notton response : no specific response from Notton PC
No.
Yes.
To achieve the aims of this design guide it is essential to recognise
the opportunities and constraints of individual sites.
An analysis of the site must be the starting point in the design
process. Too often in the past, designers, developers, and
planners have attempted to fit all the design considerations to a
pre-determined road layout with disappointing results. Road
layouts should be designed to contribute to a distinctive spatial
identity for each scheme, giving access in ways that respect the
characteristics of the site and meeting the performance
requirements of this design guide.
Housing development must be limited to falling either within or on
the edge of an existing settlement. A fundamental principle of the
design of residential environments is the visual and functional
integration of new developments within their setting.
Integreat / Council's Response
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
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Comment
Reference
Organisation/Individual
RDGIC17
Mrs J Harrison
RDGIC24
Denise Rowlinson
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
More effort must be focussed in regenerating unused urban sites
particularly within the city centre environs. Changes in shopping
habits means there are acres of commercial floor space available
yet we still focus on building on brownfield sites.
Yes.
A move away from standard developer housing. We need
innovative architects to design houses that suit modern ways of
living.
Avoid box-type houses which are being done. Break the monotony
by introducing different frontages and house heights. York offers
some interesting housing estates.
Integreat / Council's Response
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
QU.6: The Council considers a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is not required as set out in section 5 of the Initial Consultation
Document. Please indicate below if you agree a SEA is not required. Agree/Disagree
If you consider one is required please set out what you consider the exceptional circumstances are requiring one to be undertaken.
RDGIC1
Ms Sue Watton
Disagree
RDGIC5
RDGIC6
Persimmon Homes
West Yorkshire
Archaeology Advisory
Service (WYAAS
West Yorkshire Ecology
Agree
Agree
Comment noted. However the
Statutory Environmental Consultees
have been consulted and have
indicated they do not consider that a
full SA / SEA is necessary with regard
to this SPD.
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
Agree
Comment noted.
RDGIC7
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Comment
Reference
RDGIC8
Organisation/Individual
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
Michael Ray
Disagree.
Whatever will try to reduce drainage caused by outdoor river floods.
RDGIC9
Historic England
RDGIC10
G Marshall
Agree.
In terms of the historic environment, this SPD is unlikely to result in
any significant environment effects over and above those already
identified in the Sustainability
Appraisal/SEA which was undertaken of the Policies and proposals
contained in the LDF. Therefore we do not consider that an SEA is
required.
Disagree.
Environmental considerations are really important and are always
changing e.g. extreme weather events, new building
designs/materials/developments, energy developments, flooding.
RDGIC11
RDGIC12
Wakefield Civic Society
Notton Parish Council
RDGIC13
RDGIC14
Mr M Ayub
Mr A McGuinness
Integreat / Council's Response
Comment noted. However the
Statutory Environmental Consultees
have been consulted and have
indicated they do not consider that a
full SA / SEA is necessary with regard
to this SPD.
Comment noted.
Comment noted. However the
Statutory Environmental Consultees
have been consulted and have
indicated they do not consider that a
full SA / SEA is necessary with regard
to this SPD.
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
Agree.
Notton response: we have a concern about traffic and road
infrastructure – recent speed surveys show c.4,000 vehicles per
day (often travelling at speed) through small country roads. Whilst
we understand the proposal, we feel there must be a threshold
where a SEA is required – this may be based on size of a
development and / or the fact that several developments within a
‘x’ mile radius have been approved within the last (say) 10 years.
Our point being that we cannot keep putting increasing traffic levels
through small villages and rural roads without a strategic review of
that transport and traffic infrastructure (speed limits, traffic calming,
improved junctions and lighting etc.).
Agree.
Comment noted.
Disagree.
Comment noted. However the
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Comment
Reference
Organisation/Individual
Comment (Summarised by Wakefield MDC)
SEA's provide both transparency and participation during the
strategic development process where as EIA's often only apply to
specific projects.
RDGIC17
RDGIC19
Mrs J Harrison
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
RDGIC20
Environment Agency
RDGIC22
RDGIC24
Mr J Gravett
Denise Rowlinson
SEA allows for a better understanding and programming of all
environmental activities, facilitating an integral perspective of
sustainable spatial planning. These activities may be diverse, but it
ensures that biodiversity and climate change are two strong
components as well as ensuring alternative options are
investigated.
Agree.
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust agrees that a SEA is not required. We do
however advise that all potential ecological impacts are fully
assessed prior to the design of the development sites in order to
ensure that there is no adverse effect on biodiversity, which is in
accordance with Paragraph 118 of the NPPF. Such work could
also identify opportunities where good design could provide net
gains for biodiversity, which would be in accordance with
Paragraph 9 of the NPPF.
A good example of where such work was conducted in West
Yorkshire was West Yorkshire Ecology’s Ecological Appraisal for
the Shipley and Canal Road Area Action Plan (AAP), which is
attached.
Agree.
For environmental issues under our remit, we agree with the
Council that an SEA is not required for the UDF.
Agree.
I do not know what functions the SEA exercise, therefore I cannot
have an opinion on the matter.
Integreat / Council's Response
Statutory Environmental Consultees
have been consulted and have
indicated they do not consider that a
full SA / SEA is necessary with regard
to this SPD.
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
Comment noted.
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2.3 Printed Survey Responses
A housing survey was produced and made available for completion at both Wakefield One and Castleford Library exhibitions and distributed to
locations around the district. The tables below lay out the information that was gathered from this.
How long have you lived in your current
house?
0-2 years
5-10 years
10+ years
10+ years
10+ years
10+ years
10+ years
Did you choose a modern house in
preference to an older house?
Yes
no
Yes
no
no
No
No
What would you say are the things you like most
about your house?
The style and layout if the house and the estate it’s on
None, only areas is nice
I live in a slum
Bungalow suitable for accessibility and disabilities,
well insulated, big windows
Everything
The party walls insulate well. There is a new polymer
door (front) which appears to be better insulated and
one of the ground floor windows is triple glazed. There
is a loft and cellar which can be converted into living
areas which are super insulated.
If Yes, please explain why...
We liked the particular style of new house
WDH rented
n/a
n/a
N/A
n/a
n/a
What are the things you aren't so happy with (If any) ?
n/a
It needs modernising, needs new fencing, neighbours party all week and
deal drugs
My garage is leaking
2 steps on side access to house is difficult and sloped driveway is difficult.
There is no view.
Not enough storage
The poor outside envelope insulation of the house. The lack of zero carbon
renewables for the electric supply. The need to maintain the right interior
space heat, technology for the house is appropriate. Triple glazed better
insulation. How to design insulated blinds? There ought to be space heat
pumps of air to air kind to connect lesser grade outdoor heat to increased
grade heat for the house interior. The toilets ought to be compost toilets and
waste water ought to be purified by reduced watt hour (energy) method – to
extract distilled water.
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Reasonably quiet area, some open fields nearby
Subsidence, rooms too small, ceilings too low, no views whatsoever
Do you have enough
storage space inside your
house?
Just right
Too little
Just right
Just right
Are your rooms big enough for
everything you would like to put in
them?
Yes
No
Yes
No
Just right
Too little
Yes
No
Too little
No
Do you think there is enough storage
space for wheelie bins and recycling
bins?
Yes
No
n/a
No
No
Yes
No
If not, could you say what rooms and what you would need?
n/a
Need 4 bedrooms
n/a
Only fit single bed in room 2, have to use fold-up bed.
The rooms lack the right insulation with the outside air and the ground.
This means the outdoor walls, windows, basement, floor and roof.
Bedrooms
More space to store books & documents either in bedroom or
downstairs
If you have any comments about the storage of wheelie bins and recycling bins please make them
using the box below.
Plenty of room at the rear of the house
n/a
n/a
Better bin storage needed
n/a
I think it is safer to the residents to store biodegradable waste at 2-3 degrees c in refrigerated containers
and to make sure that biodegradable waste is not mixed with non-biodegradable waste. What is the role of
the human on planet earth? Ans: The human is an omnivore that eats plants and animals for nutrition that
leaves faecal deposits which renutrify the soil. A zero waste ideology is recommended where there is no
landfill or no incineration.
Very bad, storing on pavements in communal passages, or where visible. Detracts a lot from the area
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What do you think about the area outside your house? –
The garden, your parking arrangements, etc
Ample, 2 parking spaces at the front and a rear facing garden
Parking is ridiculous
n/a
requires employment of gardener to maintain garden
The rear garden is adequate. There is space for 1 or 2
greenhouses and a rainwater storage container buried beneath
the grass for some of the houses water supply. One wishes to put
up an 8m wind turbine at the rear of the house. The turbine can
be utilised to store water to drive a water turbine to provide
electricity when the air turbine is still.
15ft garden is too small, no car or space to park it if we had one
garden nice, paring totally inadequate
When you chose your new house, did you feel there
was much choice of type and style of property
available?
Yes
n/a
n/a
Close to bus stops
n/a
No
n/a
Are you satisfied
with your local
amenities?
Yes
No
n/a
Yes
If yes, can you explain why; if no what would
you like to improve?
n/a
n/a
n/a
Yes
No
Yes
n/a
I wish local amenities would utilise zero-carbon,
non-nuclear renewables such a pv panels and
outdoor turbines. Try to make as many surfaces for
pv panels.
n/a
n/a
1st
Trumpington
Trumpington
n/a
n/a
Newhall
Derwenthorpe
n/a
2nd
Smartlife
Smartlife
n/a
n/a
Derwenthorpe
Castle Hill
n/a
3rd
Newhall
Derwenthorpe
n/a
n/a
Castle Hill
Trumpington
n/a
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Finally, please would you tell us the street name or area in
which you live? If you know the name of the developer of
your housing scheme please would you also write their
name below? Letting us know this information will help us
get the most from the survey.
If you let us have your
email address we can
forward you the
conclusions of this survey,
but you can also remain
anonymous. email address
(optional)
Please choose which prize you
would prefer.
Railcard
Gym
n/a
Railcard
Railcard
Railcard
Railcard
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2.4 Online Survey Responses
An online survey was also made available and promoted at the Exhibitions and through the distribution of flyers at various locations. The results
are analysed in the tables below
How long have you lived in
your current house?
3-5 years
Did you choose a modern
house in preference to an
older house?
Yes
If Yes, please explain why...
because it might be more energy efficient
0-2 years
0-2 years
6-10 years
Yes
Yes
Yes
We wanted a property that was maintenance free and well proportioned.
Looked nicer
Financially, it was the only way we could get a family home.
What would you say are the things you like most about
your house?
n/a
Modern, well designed, well proportioned, well-constructed
and in a location we wanted. The layout of the development is
also excellent.
Town house look
The Garden, but that's about it!
What are the things you aren't so happy with (If any) ?
room sizes are small
None
Shared parking, narrow roads
The build quality, but they are all the same. Car Parking - lack of it. The
landscaping of the street and the dominance of tarmac. Lack of sustainable
features.
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Do you have enough storage space
inside your house?
Too little
Are your rooms big enough for everything
you would like to put in them?
No
If not, could you say what rooms and what
you would need?
n/a
Just right
Just right
Yes
Yes
Too little
No
They are just right.
Office, cupboards
We need somewhere to store all the children’s
toys!
Do you think there is enough
storage space for wheelie
bins and recycling bins?
No
Yes
Yes
No
If you have any comments about
the storage of wheelie bins and
recycling bins please make them
using the box below.
No comments
They can be better incorporated into the
front of houses rather than having to drag
them round to the front every Friday.
What do you think about the area outside your house? – The
garden, your parking arrangements, etc
Very good. Parking for two as we needed plus garage. Gardens secluded
and secure.
Not enough
Parking arrangements are poor, because of the layout, long windy roads,
prevalence of cul-de-sacs etc. The front garden - if you can call it that - is
too small to plant anything worthwhile and generally the plants don't survive
because of people walking on them.
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Are you
satisfied
with your
local
amenities? If yes, can you explain why; if no what would you like to improve?
No
Well-sited for access to major roads. Occasionally congested at junction 32 due to
high traffic but we knew about this. The access to crossing roads needs to be
improved. No safe crossings from the development to either Pontefract or the park at
the race course. This makes walking into Pontefract with a pushchair extremely
dangerous. I feel this must be addressed as the development grows and children
Yes
begin walking to school or shops.
Yes
n/a
We've got a retail park within 5mins walk, but the route is not direct, appreciate its
Yes
because of different ownerships but still more though could've been put in.
Please select your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourite scheme
1st
2nd
3rd
Abode
Castle
Hill
Castle
Hill
Abode
Newhall
Smartlife
Trumpington
Tibbys triangle
Trumpington Tibbys triangle
Newhall
Smartlife
When you chose your new house, did
you feel there was much choice of type
and style of property available?
No
Yes
Yes
No
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Finally, please would you tell us the street
name or area in which you live? If you
know the name of the developer of your
housing scheme please would you also
write their name below? Letting us know
this information will help us get the most
from the survey.
If you let us have your email address we
can forward you the conclusions of this
survey, but you can also remain
anonymous. email address (optional)
Please choose which prize you would prefer.
Two Together Railcard
One month free Membership at Sun Lane Leisure Centre in Wakefield
City Centre
A Two Together Railcard
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Appendix A
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3.1 Engagement
Methods and
Materials
Interactive wall with moveable housing examples
‘What styles of housing do you prefer?’
Like Least <…..>Like Most
‘What do you think is the
Wakefield vernacular?’
The following section
illustrates the different
methods of engagement used
for the RDG Initial Scoping
Consultation.
3.2 Interactive
Exhibitions
Interactive exhibitions ran in
both Wakefield One and
Castleford Library from the 8th
to the 18th of February 2016.
The exhibitions were
designed to be highly visual
and interactive whilst
containing a variety of
informative material. This
included information relating
to the scope and purpose of
the RDG, 24 housing
precedents with indicative
key, explanation of different
housing types, glossary of
3.3interactive
Printed
terms,
housing
preference chart and an
interactive vernacular section.
24 Housing
Precedents with
comparison key
and description
Glossary of
terms
Explanation of
different
housing types
Profile of
Wakefield’s
vernacular
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Printed Housing Survey
A housing survey was produced and made available for completion at both Wakefield One and Castleford Library exhibitions.
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Roughly 350 surveys were also distributed to nearby new housing estates throughout the Wakefield District as shown on the table and map
below.
Reference Scheme Name
A
Silkwood Gate
B
C
D
E
F
Silkwood Gate
Benton Park
Cedar View
Elegance
Leafield Gardens
G
H
Navigation Point
Oaklands
I
J
K
L
M
Oaklands
Prince's Park
Priory Fields
Windsor Park
Xpressions
N
O
Fellow's Place
Magnolia Gardens
P
Q
R
S
The Oaks
Sycamore Gardens
Clarence Heights
City Fields
Developer
Barratt Homes
David Wilson
Homes
Orion Homes
Walker Builders
Strata
Orion Homes
Greenhaven
Homes
Barratt Homes
David Wilson
Homes
Avant
Barratt Homes
Redrow
Taylor Wimpey
David Wilson
Homes
Persimmon
David Wilson
Homes
Persimmon
Persimmon
Miller Homes
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(Survey distributed to following housing schemes)
3.4 Main RDG Consultation Survey
3.5 Online Survey
The primary method of engagement was through the
RDG consultation survey. This had the greatest
number of responses. The survey comprised of 6
questions which aimed to establish the key issues to
be covered in the RDG.
An online survey was produced which was promoted on all
RDG literature and material including those distributed to
local housing estates. This recognised people may not have
the free time to complete and return physical surveys and
allowed others to access the survey remotely.
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3.6. Exhibition Advertisements
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3.7 LDF Advertisements
Advertisements of UDF and RDG
exhibitions produced and circulated
WMDC
Screenshot of WMDC Facebook Post Promoting Consultation
Poster distributed around local area
Statutory Notice from Wakefield Express (22.1.2016)
Statutory Notice from Castleford and Pontefract Express
(22.1.2016)
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Screenshot of Internal Council newsletter
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Screenshot of Integreat PLUS website
promoting LDF consultations
3.8 Exhibition Photos
B
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Appendix B
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4.1 Specific Consultation Bodies as Listed in Regulation 2 of the Town and Country
Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012
(a) Coal Authority
(b) Environment Agency
(c) Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England (known as English Heritage, now Historic England)
(d) Marine Management Organisation
(e) Natural England
(f) Network Rail Infrastructure Limited (company number 2904587),
(g) Highways Agency,
(h) a relevant authority any part of whose area is in or adjoins the local planning authority‘s area
(i) any person— (i) to whom the electronic communications code applies by virtue of a direction given under section 106(3)(a) of the
Communications Act 2003, and (ii) who owns or controls electronic communications apparatus situated in any part of the local planning
authority‘s area.
(j) if it exercises functions in any part of the local planning authority‘s area— (i) a Primary Care Trust established under section 18 of the
National Health Service Act 2006(9) or continued in existence by virtue of that section; (ii) a person to whom a licence has been granted under
section 6(1)(b) or (c) of the Electricity Act 1989(10); (iii) a person to whom a licence has been granted under section 7(2) of the Gas Act
1986(11); (iv) a sewerage undertaker; and (v) a water undertaker;
(k) the Homes and Communities Agency(12); and
(l) where the local planning authority are a London borough council, the Mayor of London;
General consultation bodies as listed in regulation 2 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012:
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a) voluntary bodies some or all of whose activities benefit any part of the local planning authority‘s area,
(b) bodies which represent the interests of different racial, ethnic or national groups in the local planning authority‘s area,
(c) bodies which represent the interests of different religious groups in the local planning authority‘s area,
(d) bodies which represent the interests of disabled persons in the local planning authority‘s area,
(e) bodies which represent the interests of persons carrying on business in the local planning authority‘s area;
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4.2 Consultee List
Specific Organisations (21)
RWE – npower
(SCI Appendix 2.1)
Strategic Health Authority Estates Department
British Telecom PLC
Yorkshire Cable
Canal and River Trust
Yorkshire Electricity
Historic England (formerly English Heritage)
Yorkshire Water Services
Environment Agency
Specific Organisations (Adjoining Councils) (8)
Highways Agency
(SCI Appendix 2.1)
Knottingley to Gowdall Drainage Board
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Leeds City Region Secretariat
Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Local Government Yorkshire and Humber
Calderdale Council
Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
Mobile Operators Association
Kirklees Council
National Grid
Leeds City Council
Natural England
North Yorkshire County Council
Planning Inspectorate
Selby District Council
Powergen
Specific Organisations (Town and Parish Councils within
district) (25)
Historic Monuments of England
RWE – Innogy
(SCI Appendix 2.1)
Ackworth Parish Council
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Badsworth Parish Council
Upton and North Elmsall Parish Council
Crigglestone Parish Council
Walton Parish Council
Crofton Parish Council
Warmfield-cum-Heath Parish Council
Darrington Parish Council
West Bretton Parish Council
East Hardwick Parish Council
Wintersett Parish Council
Featherstone Town Council
Woolley Parish Council
Havercroft-with-Cold Hiendley Parish Council
Specific Organisations (Town and Parish Councils adjoining
district) (20)
Hemsworth Town Council
Normanton Town Council
Nostell Parish Council
Notton Parish Council
Ryhill Parish Council
Sharlston Parish Council
Sitlington Parish Council
South Elmsall Town Council
South Hiendley Parish Council
South Kirkby and Moorthorpe Town Council
Thorpe Audlin Parish Council
(SCI Appendix 2.1)
Allerton Bywater Parish Council
Beal Parish Council
Brierley Town Council
Brotherton Parish Council
Byram-cum-Sutton Parish Council
Clayton-with-Frickley Parish Council
Cridling Stubbs Parish Council
Denby Dale Parish Council
Fairburn Parish Council
Great Houghton Parish Council
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Hampole and Skelbrooke Parish Council
Asian Women's Association
High Hoyland Parish Council
Aysgarth Community Association
Hooton Pagnell Parish Council
Brunswick Street Mosque
Kirk Smeaton Parish Council
CISWO
Kirkburton Parish Council
Castleford Heritage Group
Ledsham Parish Council
Castleford Riverside Community Group
Ledston Parish Council
Castleford Town Centre Partnership
Norton Parish Council
Central Jamia Mosque
Shafton Parish Council
Chevin Housing Association
Stapleton Parish Council
Citizen Advice Bureau
Community Assembly
General Organisations (Community Groups) (81)
Crofton Community Centre
(SCI Appendix 2.2)
Cutsyke Community Group
A.I.R.E Environmental Group
Development Initiative for Voluntary Arts
Ackworth and District Riding Club
DIAL Wakefield
Ackworth Footpath Group
Eastmoor Community Project
Agbrigg and Belle Vue Allotment Association
Featherstone Historical Society
Age Concern Wakefield District
Federation of Small Businesses (Wakefield Branch)
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Ferrybridge Community Centre
Next Generation Community Trust
Glasshoughton Community Forum
Normanton Environmental Society
Grange Street Mosque
North Wakefield Community Group
Groundwork Wakefield
Ossett Historical Society
Help the Aged
Pontefract and District Archaeological Society
Hemsworth and District Partnership
Pontefract and Castleford Federation of Small Businesses
Horbury and District Historical Society
Pontefract and District Rail Action Group
Horbury Community Council
Pontefract Heritage Group
Horbury Village Partnership
Pontefract Local History Society
Horbury, Ossett and Sitlington Regeneration Group
Pontefract Town Centre Partnership
Kinsley and Fitzwilliam Community Resource Centre
Portobello Tenants and Residents Association
Kirkhamgate Community Association
Residents Against Toxic Sites
Knottingley Town Hall Community Centre
Royal British Legion, Horbury, Sitlington and Ossett branch
Lock Lane Community Centre
SANS (Sharlston and Streethouse) Community Development
Lupset Community Centre Association Ltd
SESKU Community Advisory Forum
Lupset Community Partnership
SESKU Environment Group
Minsthorpe Community College
Showmen's Guild
NACRO
South Hiendley Community Association
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South Pontefract Community Partnership
Wrenthorpe Community Association
Special Abilities
Wrenthorpe Environmental Society
St Catherine's Church Centre
Yorkshire Mesmac
St Marys Project
Zakria Mosque
St Michael’s Tenants and Residents Association
St Peter and St Pauls Community Association
Government Departments (11)
Swaffia Mosque
(SCI Appendix 2.3)
Thorpe Audlin Community Association
Upton and North Elmsall Community Forum
Communities and Local Government
Voluntary Action Wakefield District
Crown Estates
Wakefield and District Environmental Action Forum
Defence Estates
Wakefield and District Environmental Action Forum South Kirkby
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Wakefield and District Sight Aid
Government Office for the English Regions
Wakefield Asian Welfare Association
Health and Safety Executive
Wakefield College
HM Prison Service Headquarters
Wakefield District Sports Association
Homes and Communities Agency
Wakefield Local Access Forum
Housing Corporation
Wakefield Mosque, Pinderco Ltd/WACF
Office of Government Commerce
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Yorkshire and the Humber Reg. Housing
Freightliner Ltd
Friends of the Earth
Additional Organisations (34)
GB Railfreight Ltd
(SCI Appendix 2.3)
Gypsy Council
Gypsy Council for Education, Culture, Welfare and Civil Rights
Arriva Yorkshire
Home Builders Federation
British Geological Survey
Home Office
CABE
Midland Mainline
Campaign for Better Transport - West Yorkshire Group
National Trust
Campaign to Protect Rural England
Network Rail
Church Commissioners
Road Haulage Association
Coal Authority
Royal Mail Property Holdings
Diocese of Wakefield
RSPB
East Coast Main Line
Sport England (Yorkshire Region)
English Welsh and Scottish Railways
Sustrans
Fields In Trust
Traveller Law Reform Project
Forestry Commission
Virgin Trains
Freight Transport Association
Wakefield District Biodiversity Group
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Wakefield Naturalists' Society
Knottingley Civic Society
West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive
Normanton Civic Society
Woodland Trust
Ossett Civic Society
Pontefract Civic Society
Wakefield Civic Society
Additional Organisations (Joint Services) (5)
Additional Organisations (Chambers of Trade and Commerce) (5)
(SCI Appendix 2.3)
(SCI Appendix 2.3)
West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service
Featherstone Chamber of Trade
West Yorkshire Ecology
Horbury and District Chamber of Trade
West Yorkshire Fire Service
Mid-Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry Ltd
West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service
Pontefract Chamber of Trade
West Yorkshire Police
Wakefield Area Chamber of Commerce Industry Ltd
Additional Organisations (Civic Societies) (6)
(SCI Appendix 2.3)
Other Organisations (18)
(SCI Appendix 2.4)
Horbury Civic Society
British Wind Energy Association
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Council for British Archaeology
Director of Public Health
WMDC Councillors (63)
Friends, Families and Travellers
(SCI Appendix 2.4)
Greenpeace
63 Local councillors representing all 21 wards.
Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust
National Farmers Union
National Fed. of Gypsy Liaison Groups
National Trust
Members of Parliament and Members of the European Parliament (10)
(SCI Appendix 2.4)
Northern Gas Networks Ltd
Northern Rail
npower Renewable
4 Members of Parliament
6 Members of the European Parliament
Ramblers Association
Theatres Trust
Additional developers, businesses and organisations who have
requested to be/have been consulted (246)
Wakefield District Housing (WDH)
(SCI Appendix 2.4)
Wakefield Job Centre Plus
Welcome to Yorkshire
A and L Slater Ltd
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
ABLE Partnership Ltd
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Acanthus W S M Architects
Castleford Cricket Club
Agbrigg and Bell Vue Community Centre
Castleford Lock Lane ARLFC
Aged Welfare Assoc
Castleford Panthers ARLFC
Altofts Community Sports Club
Castleford RUFC
Altofts Cricket Club
Castleford Tigers
Altofts Football Club
Cathedral Church of All Saints, Wakefield
Arriva Yorkshire
Castleford Town AFC
Azaad Cricket Club
CDP Ltd
Bad Brains MTB Club
Central Jamia Masjid
Barnsley, Dearne and Dove Canals Trust
City of Wakefield Golf Club
Barratt and David Wilson Homes
CLA Country Land and Business Association
Barton Willmore LLP
Coal Authority
BBM Revolution Cycling Club
Coalfields Regeneration Trust
Bernhards Landscapes (Wakefield) Ltd
Colliers International
British Sign and Graphics Association
Community Awareness Programme (CAP)
BTCV
Community Group for College Grove/Pinderfields
Calder Clarion Cycling Club
Confederation of UK Coal Producers
Carter Jonas
Crigglestone and Durkar Residents Association
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Crigglestone ARLFC
Friends of Fryston Wood
Cromwell Wood Estate Co. Ltd
Friends of Green Park Ossett
David Storrie Associates
Friends of Hartleys Field
Development Planning Partnership
Friends of Haw Hill Park Normanton
Dewsbury Road Autos
Friends of Haw Park Wood
Disabled Peoples Partnership (South East)
Friends of Heath Common
DPDS Consulting Group
Friends of Horbury Lagoons
Eastmoor Angling Club
Friends of Illingworth Park
F.M. Lister and Son
Friends of Kettlethorpe Lake and Woodland
Featherstone Lions ARLFC
Friends of Kettlethorpe Park
Featherstone Road Club
Friends of King George Field
Featherstone Rovers
Friends of Lakeside Meadows
Friends of Bottom Boat Park
Friends of Lock Lane Altofts
Friends of Carr Lodge Park
Friends of Manygates Park
Friends of CHaT Parks
Friends of Millpond Meadows
Friends of Flanshaw
Friends of Newmillerdam Country Park
Friends of Friarwood Valley Gardens
Friends of Newton Hill
Friends of Frickley Country Park
Friends of Orchard Head
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Friends of Ossett Church Street
GREAT (Glasshoughton /Redhill environment action team)
Friends of Ossett Green Park
Gregory Gray Associates Ltd
Friends of Pease Park
Hall Green TandR Assoc.
Friends of Pontefract Park
Hare Park Farm
Friends of Purston Park
Harris Partnership
Friends of Queens Park
Healthy Walks Project
Friends of Saville Park
Hemsworth Arts and Community College
Friends of Seckar Wood
Hemsworth Terriers FC
Friends of Smirthwaite Park
Hemsworth Terriers Juniors FC
Friends of Stanley Marsh
Hemsworth United AFC
Friends of Stanley Playground
Home-Start Wakefield and District
Friends of Upton Country Park
Horticare
Friends of Walton Nature Park
ID Planning
Friends of Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Ings Public Recreation Ground
Fruitbowl
Involving Young People
Fusion Online Ltd
Jehovah's Witnesses
Gasped
JMP Consultants Ltd
Gladman Developments Ltd
John R Paley Associates
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JVH Town Planning Consultants
Newmillerdam Community and Conservation Association
Kayes Hotels Ltd
Nine Lakes Community Trust
Knottingley Canoe Club
Normanton Golf Club
Lafarge Aggregates Ltd
Normanton Juniors AFC
Leeds City Council
Normanton Knights ARLFC
Lofthouse Colliery Action Group
Northern Power Grid
Lofthouse Colliery Park Residents Group
Northern Trust
Lofthouse Hill Golf Club
Nostell Estate
Low Laithes Golf Club
Notcutts Ltd
Lupset Play Area's Association
Old Quarry Adventure Playground, The
Marine Management Organisation
Old Thornesians AFC
Metro Locals Community Skate Park Group
Ossett Albion FC
Mid Yorkshire Golf Club
Ossett Common Rovers FC
Middlestown Playground Group
Ossett Cricket and Athletics Club
Miller Homes Ltd
Ossett Town Centre Partnership
Mono Consultants
Ossett Town FC
National Trust- Nostell Priory and Parkland
Outwood Parks Action Group
New Inn
Overtown Grange Farm
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Pacy and Wheatley Ltd
RSPB Fairburn Ings
Pacy and Wheatley/Mr Foster/SETC
RSPB Wakefield District Local Group
Pennine Camphill Community
Rural Action Yorkshire
Pinderfields Paraplegic Archery Club
Sandal Community Association
Pledwick Cricket Club
Sandal Cricket Club
Pontefract and District Golf Club
Sandal Lawn Tennis Club
Pontefract and District Walking Club
Scala Land Ltd
Pontefract Civic Society
Slazengers Hockey Club
Pontefract Cycle Club
Slazengers Sports and Social Club
Pontefract Squash Club
Smiths Gore
Ponterfact Collieries FC
South Elmsall Cycle Club
Railfuture Yorkshire
South Kirkby Angling Club
Rapleys LLP
Spawforths
Re-Connect
Sport England
Residents For Newmarket
Standing Conference of Asian People
Resource Aid Centre
Stanley Cricket Club
Rivers Community Action Group
Stanley Rangers ARLFC
Rose Farm
Stanley United FC
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Stanley United Juniors FC
Wakefield Angling Club
Stephenson and Son
Wakefield Archers
Stockdale Stables
Wakefield Badger Group
Sustainability Advisory Group
Wakefield Cycle Club
Tangent Properties
Wakefield Deaf Women's Group
The Highwood Stud
Wakefield District Cycle Forum
Thomas Eggar LLP
Wakefield District Cycling Forum
Thornes Juniors FC
Wakefield District Harriers and Athletics Club
Thorntree Farm
Wakefield District Tree Wardens
Tireil Ltd
Wakefield FC
Townsend Planning Consultants
Wakefield Golf Club
Turley Associates
Wakefield High Flyers
UK Coal Mining Ltd
Wakefield Hockey Club
Upton Cycle Club
Wakefield Learning Partnership
Upton United Junior FC
Wakefield Over 50's Action Group
Upton Village Angling Club
Wakefield Phoenix Netball Club
Virgin Media
Wakefield RSPB Local Group
Wakefield and District Environmental Action Forum
Wakefield Shirt Co. Ltd
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Wakefield St Michaels CC
Well Woman Centre
Wakefield Sunday League
West Yorkshire Canoe Club
Wakefield Tennis Club
West Yorkshire Tennis Club
Wakefield Tree Warden Network
Wheels for Havercroft
Wakefield Triathalon Club
White Rose Ladies FC
Wakefield Walking Club
Wakefield Wildcats
Whitwood Golf Club
Walton Allotments Society
Wintersett Wildlife Group
Walton and Co
Wrenthorpe Community Association, Wrenthorpe Environmental
Walton Angling Club
Society and Ruskin/Barnes Avenue Action Group
Walton Common Farm
Wrenthorpe Rangers FC
Walton Community Centre and Recreation Ground Ltd
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Walton Golf Centre
Walton Guide and Scout Group
Additional individuals who have requested to be / have
Walton Sports and Social Club
been consulted (188)
Walton Tennis Club
(SCI Appendix 2.4)
Waterton Park Golf Club Ltd
Waystone Ltd