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30 Muirfield Drive Mayals Swansea SA3 5HS

2025/2252/FULFull PlansRefused
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Refused on 23 March 2026

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)3 reasons for refusal

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Proposal

Use of annexe as a holiday let.

Received
28 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Mayals - Bay Area
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.21 Nov
  4. Target23 Dec
  5. Decided23 Mar

Decided in 146 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at 30 Muirfield Drive Mayals Swansea SA3 5HS. Swansea has handled 3,947 applications of this type. This one was decided in 146 days, 14 weeks longer than Swansea's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across Mayals - Bay Area. We hold 2,234 applications in total for the SA3 postcode area.

82% of full applications at City and County of Swansea Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. The proposal by virtue of the independent use of this building and the introduction of holiday/short term accommodation sited within an enclosed rear garden context surrounded by residential properties, is a wholly unacceptable over intensive form of development, which results in significant and demonstrable harm to the living conditions that the occupiers of the host property and surrounding neighbouring properties should reasonably expect to enjoy, contrary to the requirements of Policies PS2, RP2 and RP3 of the Swansea Local Development Plan (2010 to 2025), Planning Policy Wales Edition 12 (February 2024) and the Future Wales National Plan (2040.)
  2. The use of this garden outbuilding as independent holiday accommodation, by virtue of its construction and external appearance as a domestic outbuilding sited within the rear garden of a dwelling house, does not represent a high quality, sustainable building that would extend the quality of tourist accommodation, contrary to the requirements of Policy PS2, TR1, TR5, T6, RP2, RP3 of the Swansea Local Development Plan (2010 - 2025), Planning Policy Wales Edition 12 (February 2024) and the Future Wales National Plan (2040.)
  3. The proposed change of use to holiday accommodation, by virtue that there is no provision for off street parking to cater for the holiday accommodation use, would result in additional parking demand which cannot be satisfactorily accommodated on street, leading to indiscriminate car parking and having a negative impact on the freeflow of traffic both vehicular and pedestrian, to the detriment of highway and pedestrian safety, contrary to the requirements of Policies PS2, TR1, TR5 and T6 of the Swansea Local Development Plan (2010 to 2025), Planning Policy Wales Edition 12 (February 2024) and the Future Wales National Plan (2040.)

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
SA3 5HS
Application type
Full Plans
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Mumbles Community Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2025
Consultation expiry
10 December 2025
Consultation start
31 October 2025
Consultation end
21 November 2025
Neighbour consultation start
4 November 2025
Neighbour consultation end
25 November 2025
Target decision date
23 December 2025
Decision issued
24 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
3 Ddol Road Dunvant SWANSEA SA2 7UB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
19 November 2025
Site notice end
10 December 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14445812
Documents
16
Constraints
32

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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