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A retrospective planning application has been submitted to allow the former Black Swan, on Westgate, to remain in use as 13-bedroom shared accommodation. LDRS image

Black Swan: New HMO plan for former city centre hotel

Plans have been been lodged to convert the former Northern Social bar in Pontefract town centre into a HMO. LDRS image

Plans lodged to convert former Pontefract sports bar into HMO

Plans have been approved to convert a vacant listed building on Bond Street, in Wakefield city centre, into a house of multiple occupancy (HMO) for nine people. Image: A.1B

Listed city centre building to be converted into HMO

Plans to convert the former Graziers pub in Wakefield city centre into a HMO for four people have been approved. Image: Simon Eades

Former city centre Graziers pub to converted into HMO

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Submitted planning applications

Fresh plan to convert former Peter Jones store into HMO approved

Fresh plan submitted to turn former city centre pub into house share

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Wakefield district decided planning applications

The address on Westgate. Picture by Google

New plans unveiled to convert listed former Peter Jones building into HMO

Plans to convert the former Barclays bank in Pontefract town centre into apartments and business units have been approved.

Historic Pontefract bank building to be 'brought back to life'

Residents began a campaign to stop plans to turn the former Avondale Fisheries, in Thornes, Wakefield, into a HMO in August 2022. LDRS image.

Former chip shop to be turned into HMO after new planning appeal

Plans have been submitted to convert a vacant listed building on Bond Street, in Wakefield city centre, into a house of multiple occupancy (HMO) for nine people.

Listed Wakefield city centre building could become HMO

Pontefract town centre HMO plans rejected after more than 300 objections

New plans have been submitted to convert former legal offices at Newgate House, Pontefract, into a HMO for 20 people.

Plans resubmitted to convert former legal offices into HMO for 20 people

Plan to turn former city centre pub into HMO refused

‘Poor quality’ plan to convert former Peter Jones store rejected
Plans to convert the upper floors of a prominent retail building in Wakefield city centre into a house share for ten people have been rejected.
Tony Gardner

Plans to convert the former Barclays bank in Pontefract town centre into a house of multiple occupancy (HMO) have been withdrawn. Image: Ian Rowan

Plans to turn historic former town centre Barclays bank into HMO withdrawn

Plans have been approved to convert the former Brantwood Hall care home, on North Avenue, Wakefield, into housing.

Former Wakefield care home to be converted into housing

The property on Avondale Street. Picture by Google

Plans to turn former chip shop into HMO refused

Plans have been submitted to convert the ground floor of the former Graziers pub, on Market Street, Wakefield, into a HMO.

Objections raised over plans to turn former Wakefield city centre pub into HMO

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Wakefield district decided planning applications: HMO given permission to expand

Plans to increase the size of a HMO on Church Lane, Normanton, to include one extra bedroom attracted 47 objections to Wakefield Council

‘Turning into a ghetto’: Plan to increase size of HMO approved despite concerns

The former Barclays bank on Market Place in Pontefract. Picture by Google

Former Barclays bank could be converted into HMO

Industrial units on Flanshaw Lane could be turned into flats. Picture by Google

Industrial units could be turned into homes

The proposal involves transforming the building on Castleford Road into four new homes. Google image

Plan to turn former offices close to Normanton town centre into flats

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Decided planning applications

Plans to convert former offices next to the Black Swan pub, in Normanton, into a HMO have been refused. Google image

Plan to build HMO next to pub rejected after more than 1,000 objections
Plans to build a house of multiple occupancy (HMO) next to a pub have been rejected after more than 1,000 people objected to the scheme.
Tony Gardner

Council officers said proposals to turn the old Black Bull into ten apartments “would not provide an acceptable standard of accommodation” for future residents.

Plan to turn former pub into “oppressive” apartments refused

Plans have been submitted to convert former offices next to the Black Swan pub, in Normanton, into a HMO.

Plans submitted for HMO next to Normanton pub

Smirthwaite Street, Wakefield. Picture by Google

Wakefield HMO plan refused over concerns there are too many of them

31 Hill Top, Knottingley. Picture by Google

Plans for ‘unsympathetic’ HMO withdrawn following objections

Wakefield Council has refused permission for a shop on Dunbar Street to be converted into a HMO for nine people. Google image.

Plan to turn Belle Vue shop into HMO refused

Newgate House. Picture by Google

Pontefract HMO plan refused after hundreds of objections

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Latest decided planning applications

College Grove, Wakefield.

Council agrees HMO clampdown on ‘rogue landlords’

Planning permission has been granted to turn a former children's home on Batley Road, Flanshaw, Wakefield, into a HMO.

Former Wakefield children's home to be turned into HMO

Akef Akbar, former independent councillor for Wakefield East ward

Funeral directors on edge of city centre to be turned into HMO despite concerns

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Latest decided planning applications

Carlton Street, Castleford. Picture by Google

Castleford residents' fears over town's future after application submitted

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Latest decided planning applications

Plans to increase the size of house share have been rejected after council planning officers described the scheme as 'substandard'.

Smawthorne Lane: ‘Substandard’ Castleford HMO plan rejected

The following planning applications were validated the week beginning April 1.

Latest planning applications submitted to Wakefield Council

Plans to turn the former Avondale Fisheries, in Thornes, Wakefield, into a HMO have been re-submitted. Residents began a campaign to stop the scheme in August 2022

Plan re-submitted to turn former fish shop into a house of multiple occupancy

Station Lane, Featherstone. Picture by Google

Former dental surgery will be replaced by HMO

The scheme includes turning the prominent building on Lower York Street into a house of multiple occupancy (HMO) for six people.

Plan to convert former funeral directors into HMO

The application to convert the house on Bowness Avenue, Airedale, into a house share attracted 25 objections from residents with concerns that it would add to anti-social behaviour problems in the area.

Plan to turn Castleford house into HMO scrapped

Residents began a campaign to stop the scheme in August 2022.

Developer loses fight over plan to turn former fish shop into HMO

Plans to turn a former gospel hall, on Smawthorne Lane, Castleford, into flats have been approved despite strong opposition from residents.

Anger as plan approved to turn 122-year-old former gospel hall into flats

Councillors are to consider plans to build 24 one-bed flats at the junction of Church Lane and King Street.

More than 200 residents oppose plan to build block of flats in Normanton

Concerns were raised that the property was being ‘shoehorned’ onto the plot of land at Lingwell Gate Lane.

Application to build six-bedroom family home in Outwood approved

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Objections to six-bedroom family house being ‘shoehorned’ onto land in Outwood

Councillors voted unanimously in favour of rejecting an application to convert the former Avondale Fisheries building, in Thornes, Wakefield, into a house of multiple occupancy (HMO).

Chip shop house share plan rejected due to overcrowding and parking concerns

The plan to convert the former Avondale Fisheries, in Thornes, Wakefield, sparked protests from residents earlier this year.

Wakefield chip shop housing plan recommended for approval despite 205 objections

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HMO proposal is refused

Almost 200 residents have now contacted Wakefield Council to object to the plan to turn the former Avondale Fisheries into a house of multiple occupancy (HMO).

New chip shop housing plan branded ‘cynical’ and ‘abhorrent’ by angry residents

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