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Former Priory School Site, Littleworth Lane, Barnsley, S71 5RG

2014/0853FullApproved

Approved on 26 January 2015

Council decision: Approved Subject to Legal AgreementPlanning committee

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Proposal

Erection of 192 dwellings with new access road from Littleworth Lane together with open space and balancing pond.

Received
18 July 2014
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Monk Bretton
  1. Received18 Jul
  2. Validated28 Jul
  3. Consult.18 Aug
  4. Target24 Oct
  5. Decided26 Jan

Decided in 182 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a new dwelling at Former Priory School Site, Littleworth Lane, Barnsley, S71 5RG. Barnsley has handled 3,131 applications of this type. This one was decided in 192 days, 17 weeks longer than Barnsley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 5 applications across Monk Bretton. We hold 968 applications in total for the S71 postcode area.

95% of full applications at Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 10 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
S71 5RG
Application type
Full
Development type
New Residential Developments
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
192

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 July 2014
Consultation expiry
18 August 2014
Consultation end
18 August 2014
Last date for comments
18 August 2014
Target decision date
24 October 2014
Committee meeting
16 December 2014

Planning decision

Statutory period
88 days

Additional information

Documents
58

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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