Our Ref: APP/X4725/V/11/2144563
20 June 2012
Dear Sir
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (SECTION 77)
APPLICATION BY YORKCOURT PROPERTIES LIMITED
APPLICATION REF: 10/00225/OUT. LAND ADJACENT TO NEWMARKET LANE, ROTHWELL, WAKEFIELD, LS26 9DR
1. I am directed by the Secretary of State to say that consideration has been given to the report of the Inspector, Harold Stephens BA MPhil DipTP MRTPI FRSA, who held a public local inquiry which opened on 6 December 2011, into your client’s application to Wakefield Metropolitan District Council (WDC) for outline planning permission for a mixed use development comprising a community stadium (with details of the access, landscaping, layout and scale of the stadium submitted for approval), multiuse games area, B8 warehousing and distribution units, B1b and B1c business units, an hotel, an A3 unit, roads, infrastructure and landscaping in accordance with planning application ref 10/00225/OUT.
2. The application was called in for the Secretary of State’s determination on 13 December 2010.
Inspector’s recommendation and summary of the decision
3. The Inspector, whose report is enclosed with this letter, recommended that planning permission be granted. For the reasons given in this letter, the Secretary of State agrees with the Inspector’s conclusions and is minded to agree with his recommendation, subject to the submission of a completed planning obligation and answers to his queries in paragraph 24 below. All paragraph references, unless otherwise stated, refer to the Inspector’s report (IR).
