New housing in Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
We read Wakefield Metropolitan District Council's planning register every day. We hold 11,464 of its planning applications going back to 2016, and 100 of those made in the last 12 months are for new homes.
It delivered 112% of the homes it needed in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test.
Key facts
- Local Plan
- Not recorded yet.
- Five-year housing land supply
- Not recorded yet.
- Housing Delivery Test
- 112% (2025)
- Local Plan sites we hold
- None loaded yet.
- Planning applications we hold
- 11,464
Applications for new homes, by year
Applications we have identified as being for new homes, by the year they were made. Approved and refused count those decided so far.
| Year | Applications | Approved | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 89 | 50 | 10 |
| 2025 | 111 | 83 | 16 |
| 2024 | 92 | 72 | 11 |
| 2023 | 155 | 127 | 15 |
| 2022 | 148 | 118 | 18 |
| 2021 | 111 | 85 | 17 |
The largest housing schemes of the last three years
| Homes | Site | Status | Made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 300 | Land To The East Of Wakefield Road Hemsworth Development of 300 dwellings and associated works 25/02291/FUL | Decided | 19 Dec 2025 |
| 290 | Land South And East Church Road Altofts Normanton Residential development of 290 dwellings with access, landscaping, public open space and associated works. 26/01233/FUL | Decided | 13 Jul 2026 |
| 290 | Land South East Of Church Road Normanton WF6 2QR 290 Dwellings with associated access, open space, drainage infrastucture 26/00862/EIASO | Approved | 18 May 2026 |
| 260 | Land Of East Wakefield Road Hemsworth Residential development of up to 260 dwellings (use class C3), associated landscaping and infrastructure to include a surface car park for users of Vale Head Park 23/01934/OUT | Approved | 5 Dec 2023 |
| 190 | Land at Holme Farm, Carleton (HS10) Residential development (up to 190 dwellings) with communal public space, associated landscaping and infrastructure works 24/01567/FUL | Decided | 20 Sept 2024 |
| 185 | Land At Highfield Road Hemsworth Pontefract 185 dwellings with provision of two replacement football pitches, greenspace and associated infrastructure. 26/00924/EIASO | Approved | 28 May 2026 |
| 164 | Land At Pope Street Altofts Normanton WF6 2QY Appeal against the refusal of planning application 24/01042/OUT for 'Outline planning application for demolition of existing buildings and erection of a residential development of up to 164 dwellings (Use Class C3)… APP/6008543 | Decided | 10 Aug 2026 |
| 141 | Land Off Buckthorne Road Normanton 141 Dwellings 24/01983/EIASO | Approved | 11 Nov 2024 |
| 137 | Land At Buckthorne Road Normanton Wakefield Erection of 137 dwellings and associated site infrastructure, open space and landscaping 24/02022/FUL | Approved | 28 Nov 2024 |
| 129 | Parkside Hotel Public House (Former) Park Road Pontefract WF8 4QD Reserved Matters (Layout, Appearance, Scale and Landscaping) for 129no. dwellings pursuant to outline permission 21/02981/OUT dated 13th December 2024 (for up to 150 residential units (C3) associated car parking… 21/02981/REM01 | Approved | 31 Mar 2025 |
Towns and villages
See every field round the edge of a town or village, scored for how likely it is to be built on.
- Ackworth Moor Top
- Badsworth
- Bottom Boat
- Castleford
- Coxley (Wakefield)
- Crigglestone and Durkar
- Crofton
- Darrington
- Featherstone (Wakefield)
- Fitzwilliam and Kinsley
- Hall Green
- Havercroft and Ryhill
- Heath
- Hemsworth
- High Ackworth
- Holmfield
- Horbury
- Kirkhamgate
- Knottingley
- Low Ackworth
- Middlestown and Overton
- Netherton (Wakefield)
- Normanton (Wakefield)
- Notton (Wakefield)
- Ossett
- Pontefract
- Sharlston
- South Elmsall
- South Hiendley
- South Kirkby
- Streethouse
- Thorpe Audlin
- Upton (Wakefield)
- Wakefield
- Walton (Wakefield)
- West Bretton
- Woolley
Where this comes from
- Planning applications: Wakefield Metropolitan District Council's online planning register, last read 14 Nov 2026.
- Housing Delivery Test: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
- How fields are scored: how the score works.