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2 Smith Street, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 0AQ

2021/0320Certificate of Lawfulness - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 28 April 2021

Council decision: Lawful Development Certificate - GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Lawful development certificate for proposed change of use from C3 (single dwelling) to C4 (HMO for 3 people)

Received
3 March 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
NA
  1. Received3 Mar
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.19 Apr
  4. Target28 Apr
  5. Decided28 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 2 Smith Street, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 0AQ. Barnsley has handled 411 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 2 weeks quicker than Barnsley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 666 applications in total for the S73 postcode area.

84% of outline 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 0AQ
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Validated
3 March 2021
Consultation expiry
19 April 2021
Consultation end
19 April 2021
Target decision date
28 April 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal history

3283772
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 24 March 2022Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
5

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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

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

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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