Moto Hospitality Southbound, Bramley Lane, Bretton, Wakefield, WF4 4LQ

Planning appeal 3352035 at Moto Hospitality Southbound, Bramley Lane, Bretton, Wakefield, WF4 4LQ (Wakefield Metropolitan District Council) was allowed on 1 August 2025 by Inspector Skelly C, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the appeal site is grey belt land and if so, whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the Framework and relevant development plan policies.

erection of a drive-thru restaurant unit with access, parking, landscaping and other associated works. Appeal B: APP/X4725/W/24/3357957 Moto Hospitality Southbound, Bramley Lane, Bretton, Wakefield, WF4 4LQ

Authority: Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: leisure-sport · Minor retail and services
Inspector: Skelly C
Postcode: WF4 4LQ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the appeal site is grey belt land and if so, whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the Framework and relevant development plan policies
Whether the proposal would provide appropriate net gains in Biodiversity (Appeal A only)

What decided it

The appeal site meets the definition of grey belt land and all criteria in paragraph 155 of the Framework are satisfied, making the proposal not inappropriate development in the Green Belt.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: LP62LP69LP51LP53
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 110Paragraph 115Paragraph 143Paragraph 153Paragraph 155Paragraph 156Paragraph 157

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.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

14 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision

An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter — Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.

Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app — Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.

Start your free trial

More decisions in Wakefield Metropolitan District Council

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025

Allowed14 September 20266006811
Hall Croft House, Castleford Road, Normanton, WF6 2DN
Notice varied and upheld24 August 20263361281
Wragby Grange, Doncaster Road, Wragby, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4 1QX
Dismissed10 August 20266004277
Land At Back Lane, Woolley, Wakefield, WF4 2JT
Allowed10 July 20266006858
Land at, Pontefract Road, Pontefract, WF11 8RJ
Allowed2 July 20263368025
Land South of Wakefield B Substation, And East of Neil Fox Way, Wakefield, WF1 5DB

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.