Cannon Hall Open Farm, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT Data via plota.co.uk
2026/0160 - Full
Approved
Proposal
Erection of a mixed use barn at first floor level above the existing silage clamps, part-educational use (Class F1) and part-leisure use (Class E). Data via plota.co.uk
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26 Feb 2026
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Approved
21 May 2026
Approved on 21 May 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 12 Sept 2026
Site constraints 8
7 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Gardener's Cottage in Cannon Hall Gardens, Grade II, about 21 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade II*, 6 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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- 21 mGardener's Cottage in Cannon Hall GardensGrade II
- 22 mCannon HallGrade II*
- 26 mFormer Coach House to Cannon HallGrade II
- 29 mEast west range attached at 90 degrees to south end of former coach house at Cannon HallGrade II
- 57 mCannon Hall Farmhouse and Adjoining Range Including Former Stable Range at 90 DegreesGrade II
- 81 mHot Wall, Hot House and Camelia House East of South Front of Cannon HallGrade II
- 113 mHa-Ha in Cannon Hall Park to South of House and East Side of GardensGrade II
Green belt: South and West Yorkshire
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
Registered park or garden: Cannon Hall
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Coal mining development high risk area
Recorded coal mining features at or near the surface. Most planning applications here need a coal mining risk assessment.
From the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The development high risk area marks recorded coal mining features at or near the surface: mine shafts and adits, shallow workings, mine gas and former opencast sites. Most planning applications there need a coal mining risk assessment; householder applications, changes of use and some minor works are exempt. Mine entry positions come from old plans and can be out by several metres, and unrecorded workings can exist anywhere in the coalfield.
Heritage at risk: Cannon Hall
On the register of historic places assessed as at risk.
A designated building, monument, park or conservation area assessed as at risk from neglect, decay or development. Proposals that secure its future are looked on favourably.
Agricultural land, grade 4
Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
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.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; Priority habitat about 48 m away: Traditional orchard.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site
Checked on 6 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 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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How this decision compares
Decided in 84 days from validation, 28 days slower than Barnsley's median of 56 for commercial premises. Approved, as 92% of commercial premises here are.
This one84d
Council56d
UK56d
55%decided within 8 weeks
92%approved
62decided in the last year
Plota live figures for commercial premises decided by Barnsley in the last twelve months, from validation. Barnsley decision record →
Consultation & key dates
- Comments by
- 26 Mar 2026
- Env. assessment
- No
Historical activity at this location
39 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.
This property
Previous applications at this address
2025
Remove 8 Poplar trees (G1) within TPO 1/1951
2023
Crown lift Holm Oak T1 by 2m and reduce canopy on house side by 2m and crown lift by 2m H…
2022
Approved
Crown lift T4 Pine Tree, T5 Oak Tree and T6 Beech Tree to give 4.5m ground clearance. Rem…
2022
Approved
Erection of single storey new build changing room and disabled WC facility
2020
Approved
Erection of 5 no Shire Horse Stables (Retrospective)
2019
Approved
Discharge of condition 3 of application 2017/0709 - Erection of substation building, beer…
2019
Approved
Discharge of condition 3 of application 2018/1060
2019
Approved
Extensions to substation and Top Barn
2018
Approved
Erection of new Animal Feed Store and new Pig Shed,and proposed extension to existing Cat…
2017
Approved
Erection of substation building, beer store, shop exit porch, road alterations, cafe exte…
2017
Approved
Fell Ash tree (T1) and remove tip weight by 2m and crown clean Holm Oak (T2) within TPO/1…
2017
Approved
Erection of marquee building (Retrospective)
2016
Approved
Formation of additional car parking spaces to existing car parking facilities.
2016
Approved
Demolition of existing kennels and erection of dog walkers shelter
Within ~100m
Nearby activity
2023
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Proposal to reroof two portions of the Cannon Hall Museum building, including the central…
2023
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Proposal to reroof two portions of the Cannon Hall Museum building, including the central…
2023
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Erection of 9 sculptures - 7no. 2m high sculptures and 2no. 4m high sculptures to form a…
2022
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Repair the westerly wooden structure, replace rotten and missing timber framework and shu…
2022
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Installation of various equipment in order to improve wi-fi connectivity (Listed Building…
2022
Withdrawn
Cannon Hall, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
One Willow type tree, mature collapsed on the north bank of the lower lake, it is alive a…
2021
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Rebuilding of leaning garden wall. Repairs to loose and unstable stonework of plunge pool…
2022
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Application of vinyl signage to entrance to museum (Advertisement Consent)
2022
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Application of vinyl signage to entrance to museum (Listed Building Consent)
2020
Approved
Cannon Hall Garden Centre, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Erection of two storey extension and alterations to building, single storey entrance to f…
2020
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Conversion of rear brick section of North Range Glass House into day training room. Insta…
2020
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Conversion of rear brick section of North Range Glass House into day training room. Insta…
2019
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Extension and alterations to the south and west wing of the stable building to provide ca…
2019
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Extension and alterations to the south and west wing of the stable building to provide ca…
2019
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT,
Alterations within grounds of Cannon Hall to include: 1- Partial restoration of the glaze…
2019
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Alterations within grounds of Cannon Hall to include: 1 - Partial restoration of the glaz…
2020
Withdrawn
Cannon Hall Garden Centre, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Reduce Ash tree in height by 10% within TPO 1/1951.
2019
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Tree removals including remove G13 due to poor condition and amenity value and remove T19…
2017
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Removal of T19, G26, G27, T28, T29, G56, G58, T67, T70, G95, G96, G110, G120, G127, G160…
2017
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Minor amendments to internal layouts of gardeners and stable yard cottages, repair works…
2017
Approved
Cannon Hall, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Conversion of existing outbuilding and siting of wooden clad container for use as a Pet C…
2017
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne Barnsley, S75 4AT
Erection of new entrance porch (Listed Building Consent)
2017
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne Barnsley, S75 4AT
Erection of new entrance porch
2016
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Works within grounds of Cannon Hall including restoration of Deer Shelter, repairing and…
2016
Approved
Cannon Hall Museum, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Works within grounds of Cannon Hall including formation of 6. no. parking spaces, reconfi…
Barnsley
Planning Authority Score
4.1/10
Below average
#189 of 296 councils
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Householder decisions
Barnsley is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #252 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) than the national average (90%).
Slower than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application.
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Barnsley decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
92%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #74 of 296
94%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #98 of 296
45%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #252 of 296
44%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #174 of 296
97%
Minor dwellings approved
76 decided (1-9 homes)
83%
Major dwellings approved
12 decided (10+ homes)
80%
Change of use approved
54 decided
673
Total decisions
53 refused in the year to March 2026
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