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38 Hoyle Mill Road, Stairfoot, Barnsley, S70 3EL

2025/0740HouseholderRefused

Refused on 11 December 2025

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

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

Proposal

Erection of detached summer house in rear garden.

Received
24 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Stairfoot Ward
  1. Received24 Aug
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.4 Dec
  4. Target24 Nov
  5. Decided11 Dec

Decided in 109 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at 38 Hoyle Mill Road, Stairfoot, Barnsley, S70 3EL. Barnsley has handled 3,131 applications of this type. This one was decided in 109 days, 6 weeks longer than Barnsley's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 243 applications in total for the S70 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 summer house has been built over a public sewer. The development and its foundations may have caused damage to the existing sewer and will seriously jeopardise Yorkshire Water's ability to maintain the public sewerage network. This is contrary to Local Plan policies GD1 and UT2 which indicate that development must consider any drains that cross the site, and seek to protect services and utilities from development that will detrimentally affect them. 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
S70 3EL
Application type
Householder
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Validated
24 August 2025
Consultation expiry
4 December 2025
Consultation end
4 December 2025
Target decision date
24 November 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
92 days

Additional information

Documents
9

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.

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