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Hill Top Park, Land off Wakefield Road, Smithies, Barnsley, S71 1ND

2025/0149FullApproved

Approved on 29 January 2026

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)6 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Use of land to a gypsy/traveller site including erection of a day room; hardstanding and boundary treatments (Retrospective)

Received
5 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Old Town Ward
  1. Received5 Mar
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.30 Jun
  4. Target30 Apr
  5. Decided29 Jan

Decided in 330 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Hill Top Park, Land off Wakefield Road, Smithies, Barnsley, S71 1ND. Barnsley has handled 3,131 applications of this type. This one was decided in 330 days, 37 weeks longer than Barnsley's typical decision time. The site is in the Esher conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across Old Town Ward. We hold 969 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).

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Application details

Postcode
S71 1ND
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Validated
5 March 2025
Consultation expiry
30 June 2025
Consultation end
30 June 2025
Target decision date
30 April 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
21

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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