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Shafton Primary Academy, High Street, Shafton, Barnsley, S72 8QA

2025/0526Certificate of Lawfulness - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 6 March 2026

Council decision: Lawful Development Certificate - Granted with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Lawful development certificate for proposed development of external door, access ramp, 1.1m high fencing, and external buggy store

Received
12 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
North East Ward
  1. Received12 Jun
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.21 Jul
  4. Target7 Aug
  5. Decided6 Mar

Decided in 267 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an outline application at Shafton Primary Academy, High Street, Shafton, Barnsley, S72 8QA. Barnsley has handled 411 applications of this type. This one was decided in 267 days, 28 weeks longer than Barnsley's typical decision time. The site is in the Loddon and Chedgrave conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across North East Ward. We hold 985 applications in total for the S72 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
S72 8QA
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shafton

Planning application dates

Validated
12 June 2025
Consultation expiry
21 July 2025
Consultation end
21 July 2025
Target decision date
7 August 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
4

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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© 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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2014
    31 Jan

    Erection of single storey side and rear extensions to existing school building.

    ApprovedFull2014/0126

Source: Barnsley

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