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P2025/0706 - Discharge of Conditions Awaiting decision

Proposal

Details submitted pursuant to discharge of conditions 3 (intrusive site investigation), 4 (remediation scheme) and 5 (verification report) of planning permission dated 30.11.23 (which varied planning permission for the conversion of existing workshop building into a carbonaceous fire behaviour training facility) Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Oct 2026, 18:09

Application progress

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Received

2 Oct 2025

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Validated

3 Oct 2025

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Consultation

27 May 2026

Decision

Target date was 27 Nov 2025

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 27 Nov 2025.

The consultation period closed on 17 Jun 2026.

Documents

View the documents on the council's website ↗

Associated applications 3

Part of

FullApproved10 Mar 2023council archive

Conditions varied
- Variation12 Jun 2023archive
  Conditions 3, 4, 5 awaiting decision
  - ConditionsDetails submitted pursuant to discharge of conditions 3 (intrusive site investigation), 4…This application3 Oct 2025P2025/0706

Site constraints 5

National infrastructure project: Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay

The site is inside the project boundary. Generating station, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted.

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. A site survey can differ.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

SSSI about 14 m away: Earlswood Road Cutting and Ferryboat Inn Quarries

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Also on the record

Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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