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Former Highfield Grange Care Home, Blythe Street, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 8LH

2016/0631Variation of Condition(s)Refused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 24 August 2016

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Variation of condition 4 of app 2015/1302 in relation to surfacing to parking/manoeuvring areas (Residential development - Erection of 43 no. dwellings with associated works)

Received
25 May 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wombwell Ward
  1. Received25 May
  2. Validated1 Jun
  3. Consult.22 Jun
  4. Target24 Aug
  5. Decided24 Aug

Decided in 84 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Former Highfield Grange Care Home, Blythe Street, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 8LH. Barnsley has handled 318 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 3 weeks longer than Barnsley's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across Wombwell Ward. We hold 666 applications in total for the S73 postcode area.

100% of conditions 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
S73 8LH
Application type
Variation of Condition(s)
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
43

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 June 2016
Consultation expiry
22 June 2016
Consultation end
22 June 2016
Target decision date
24 August 2016

Applicant and agent

Agent address
NA

Planning decision

Statutory period
84 days

Additional information

Documents
4

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

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2018
    5 Sep

    Removal of condition 4 of application 2015/1302

    RefusedVariation of conditions (s73)2018/1164

Source: Barnsley

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