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Sportsman Inn, Wakefield Road, Smithies, Barnsley, S71 1NN

2015/0996FullApproved

Approved on 3 November 2015

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of a veterinary surgery.

Received
17 August 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Old Town Ward
  1. Received17 Aug
  2. Validated25 Aug
  3. Consult.15 Sep
  4. Target20 Oct
  5. Decided3 Nov

Decided in 70 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Sportsman Inn, Wakefield Road, Smithies, Barnsley, S71 1NN. Barnsley has handled 3,131 applications of this type. This one was decided in 78 days, 8 days longer than Barnsley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across Old Town Ward. 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 1NN
Application type
Full
Development type
New Commercial/ Industrial Developments
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 August 2015
Consultation expiry
15 September 2015
Consultation end
15 September 2015
Last date for comments
15 September 2015
Target decision date
20 October 2015

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: 155 Wakefield Road, Barnsley, S71 1NGRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 and tree preservation orders.

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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