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Land off Wood Street, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 0LH

2020/0613Prior Notification - Telecommunications (TCS)Refused
Prior approval

Refused on 6 August 2020

Council decision: Prior Approval - RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed 22.50 m high telecommunications lattice tower and associated equipment (prior approval).

Received
12 June 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wombwell Ward
  1. Received12 Jun
  2. Validated29 Jun
  3. Consult.3 Aug
  4. Target7 Aug
  5. Decided6 Aug

Decided in 38 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Land off Wood Street, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 0LH. Barnsley has handled 21 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 2 weeks quicker than Barnsley's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications 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.

94% of all 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 0LH
Application type
Prior Notification - Telecommunications (TCS)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 June 2020
Consultation expiry
3 August 2020
Consultation end
3 August 2020
Target decision date
7 August 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
39 days

Additional information

Documents
8

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.

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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