Datasets

  • Mineral Safeguarding Area

    Mineral Safeguarding Areas as defined in the Site Specific Policies Local Plan Adopted 12 September 2012. It is important to protect essential mineral infrastructure and...

  • Mineral Reserves

    Mineral Reserves as defined in the Site Specific Policies Local Plan Adopted 12 September 2012. It is important to protect essential mineral infrastructure and safeguard mineral...

  • Major Developed Sites in the Green Belt

    Major Developed Sites in the Green Belt as defined in the Site Specific Policies Local Plan adopted 12 September 2012. Within these defined sites limited infilling or...

  • Local Wildlife Sites

    Dataset showing Wildlife Habitat Networks within the Wakefield District as defined in the Site Specific Policies Local Plan adopted 12 September 2012. The Council has designated...

  • Local Air Quality Management Zones

    Wakefield Council has declared a number of Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs) for locations where monitoring has identified that levels of nitrogen dioxide, primarily from...

  • LDF Settlement Boundaries

    Settlement boundaries as defined in the Site Specific Policies Local Plan adopted 12 September 2012. In principle appropriate development will be acceptable within settlement...

  • Land Reclamation

    Land Reclamation sites as defined in the Site Specific Policies Local Plan adopted 12 September 2012. Sites subject to restoration proposals and works.

  • Greenbelt Settlement Areas

    Small settlements located in the Green Belt as defined in the Site Specific Policies Local Plan adopted 12 September 2012. Small settlement boundaries in the Green Belt where...

  • Development Control Orders - Article 4

    Article 4 directions are used to control works that could threaten the character of an area of acknowledged importance, such as a conservation area. Dataset as of 26.6.15.

  • Compulsory Purchase Orders

    Compulsory Purchase Orders – a legal function in the United Kingdom and Ireland that allows certain bodies which need to obtain land or property to do so without the consent of...

  • Common Land & Village Greens

    Registered Common Land and Village Greens within the Wakefield district

  • Allotments

    Allotment sites managed by Wakefield council – not including any parish or privately maintained sites

  • Smoke Control Zones

    Smoke Control Areas in the Wakefield Council district to control smoke emissions from chimneys: only "smokeless" fuel should be used on heating appliances serving properties in...

  • Waste Sites

    Sites for waste management of municipal, commercial and industrial waste as defined in the Waste Development Plan Document adopted 9 December 2009.

  • Landscape Character Types

    District-wide Landscape Character Types as defined in the Landscape Character Assessment dated October 2004.

  • Tree Preservation Orders

    Dataset showing Tree Preservation Orders within the Wakefield District. A Tree Preservation Order (TPO) is an order made by the local planning authority in respect of trees or...