City Fields: Doctors, pub and new shops approved for new development site

The proposals are designed to provide infrastructure for the massive new development, which will consist of around 2,500 homes when it is completed.

Meanwhile a planning application to build 116 new homes at City Field has been submitted to Wakefield Council.

Morrisons is one of the businesses set to build a new store at City Fields.

The pub company behind the Toby Carvery and Harvester chains has also been signed up.

Earlier this year councillors at a health scrutiny committee expressed fears that there was not enough space left at current doctors’ surgeries to serve new residents.

They were concerned that even if new practices were set up they would not be able to cope with that many people.

Local health chiefs at that meeting in January said they were “actively working” on the issue.

Mel Brown, from Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), said that every doctor’s surgery in the district currently had space for new patients.

She said “We are working with developers to see what our options are. I do want to give an assurance that we are conscious of this.

“We are actively working on it. We’ve got an estates manager working on a whole range of proposals at the moment.”

The 152-hectare development will eventually be made up of homes, leisure, retail and business space, health facilities and parkland.