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Doncaster Central Library Waterdale Doncaster DN1 3JE

24/02034/3FULPlanning FULL (DMBC Reg3)Approved
Full

Approved on 16 April 2025

Council decision: Planning Permission GRANTEDDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of the central library building and creation of public realm including hard and soft landscape scheme with trees, planting, and street furniture. (Without compliance with conditions 02 (amended plans), 07 (materials/design pre-construction) and 08 (landscaping pre-construction) of application 23/00004/3FUL granted on 04/10/2023) - End units to be finished off instead of rebuilt and the landscape scheme extended.

Received
4 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Town
  1. Received4 Nov
  2. Validated4 Mar
  3. Consult.31 Mar
  4. Target22 Apr
  5. Decided16 Apr

Decided in 43 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Doncaster Central Library Waterdale Doncaster DN1 3JE. Doncaster has handled 2,989 applications of this type. This one was decided in 163 days, 16 weeks longer than Doncaster's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 61 applications across Town. We hold 248 applications in total for the DN1 postcode area.

90% of full applications at Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
DN1 3JE
Application type
Planning FULL (DMBC Reg3)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 March 2025
Consultation expiry
11 April 2025
Consultation start
10 March 2025
Consultation end
31 March 2025
Neighbour consultation start
10 March 2025
Neighbour consultation end
31 March 2025
Last date for comments
11 April 2025
Target decision date
22 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Doncaster M B C
Agent address
Civic Office 4th Floor Highways Design Waterdale Doncaster DN1 3BU

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Publicity

Last advertised
10 March 2025
Advertisement expiry
31 March 2025
Site notice start
21 March 2025
Site notice end
11 April 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13535449
Documents
24

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 (HMO) Boundary - Came into force 14 October 2019
  • Brownfield land register: Princegate House, Princegate, DoncasterRegister site at or near this address · +4 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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.

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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