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Notice upheld14 February 20253337726

Land at Welbeck Landfill Site, Boundary Lane , Normanton, Wakefield, WF6 2JA

Planning appeal 3337726 at Land at Welbeck Landfill Site, Boundary Lane , Normanton, Wakefield, WF6 2JA (Wakefield Metropolitan District Council) was dismissed on 14 February 2025 by Inspector Whitfield J, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether conditions 1, 3, 15, 16 and 23 of planning permission 2018/00754/WAS meet the tests of national policy in respect of the environmental effects of the extension of the period of operation and the revised proposals for the restoration of the landfill on, in particular, ecology, biodiversity and nature recovery, and the living conditions of local residents.

failure to comply with condition 1 of planning permission Ref: 18/00754/WAS granted on 14 September 2018

Authority
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Inquiry
Development
minerals-waste · Other Major Developments
Inspector
Whitfield J
Postcode
WF6 2JA

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether conditions 1, 3, 15, 16 and 23 of planning permission 2018/00754/WAS meet the tests of national policy in respect of the environmental effects of the extension of the period of operation and the revised proposals for the restoration of the landfill on, in particular, ecology, biodiversity and nature recovery, and the living conditions of local residents
  • The environmental effects of alternative options for the closure of the landfill
  • Whether the extension of the period of operation and revised proposals for restoration of the landfill comply with the development plan taken as a whole

What decided it

The absence of any realistic alternative means of completing and restoring the landfill without materially greater environmental and amenity harm than the appeal proposal.

Significant benefits from biodiversity improvement, delivery of public access/country park aspirations and sustainable waste management outweighed the limited harm from the temporal delay to restoration, tipping the balance in favour of granting permission on Appeal B.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy SP23Policy LP51Policy LP52Policy LP53Policy LP56Policy LP59Policy SP16Policy SP17Policy SP18
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 201Paragraph 187Paragraph 57Paragraph 58
Judgments
Bernard Wheatcroft Ltd v SSE [JPL 1982 P37]; Holborn Studios Ltd v The Council of the London Borough of Hackney [2017] EWHC 2823 (Admin)

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

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