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Land West of Millstones, Oxspring, Sheffield, S36 8WF

2023/1066FullRefused

Refused on 4 December 2024

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Development of rural exception site including 4no. affordable homes and 2no. open market properties with landscaping and associated infrastructure

Received
21 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Penistone East Ward
  1. Received21 Nov
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.21 Feb
  4. Target12 Feb
  5. Decided4 Dec

Decided in 379 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land West of Millstones, Oxspring, Sheffield, S36 8WF. Barnsley has handled 3,131 applications of this type. This one was decided in 379 days, 44 weeks longer than Barnsley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 66 applications across Penistone East Ward. We hold 466 applications in total for the S36 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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Why it was refused

  1. The site lies within the Green Belt on the approved Barnsley Local Plan where it is the policy of the Local Planning Authority not to permit new development except in very special circumstances or for purposes set out in the NPPF and in Local Plan policy. Local Plan policy H7 reflects national planning policy for rural exception housing and allows for limited affordable housing to meet local community needs in or on the edge of villages. The proposed market houses have not been demonstrated to be reasonably required to make the proposed affordable scheme viable. The submitted viability evidence indicates that the proposed scheme would make a profit greater than would be considered reasonable. The proposal is therefore inappropriate development in the green belt, would represent encroachment into the countryside in conflict with the Green Belt purpose, and would have a significant effect on openness. The proposal is therefore in conflict with policy GB1 Protection of the Green Belt and national planning policy, and no very special circumstances have been put forward that would clearly outweigh the harm caused. PO Box 634, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S70 9GG Pursuant to article 35 (2) of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) Order 2015 (as amended), the Local Planning Authority have, where possible, made a pre- application advice service available, and otherwise actively engaged with the applicant in dealing with the application in a

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
S36 8WF
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Oxspring

Planning application dates

Validated
21 November 2023
Consultation expiry
21 February 2024
Consultation end
21 February 2024
Target decision date
12 February 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
83 days

Additional information

Documents
34

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Green belt: Barnsley
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.

Source: Barnsley

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