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Land between Cromford Avenue and Blackheath Road. Athersley South, Barnsley, S71 3SZ

2024/1000FullApproved

Approved on 7 April 2025

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Erection of 2no. two-storey residential blocks for use as assisted living accommodation, consisting of 14no. apartments across the two blocks with shared amenity space, parking, cycle storage and bin stores, with associated highways/access works.

Received
21 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Helens Ward
  1. Received21 Nov
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.2 Jan
  4. Target12 Mar
  5. Decided7 Apr

Decided in 137 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land between Cromford Avenue and Blackheath Road. Athersley South, Barnsley, S71 3SZ. Barnsley has handled 3,131 applications of this type. This one was decided in 137 days, 10 weeks longer than Barnsley's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 2 applications across St Helens 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).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

Postcode
S71 3SZ
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
14

Planning application dates

Validated
21 November 2024
Consultation expiry
2 January 2025
Consultation end
2 January 2025
Target decision date
12 March 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
111 days

Additional information

Documents
38

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    20 Jun

    Discharge of conditions 3 (Biodiversity Gain Plan), 4 (HMMP), 5 (Cycle Store Details), 6 (Bin Store Details)…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions2025/0554
  2. 2024
    21 Nov

    Erection of 2no. two-storey residential blocks for use as assisted living accommodation, consisting of 14no…

    This applicationApprovedFull2024/1000

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