Llantrisant Recycling Pantybrad Tonyrefail Rhondda Cynon Taf CF72 8LP Data via plota.co.uk

25/0219/FUL - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Consolidation application for the retention of, and alterations and extension to Llantrisant Recycling Centre - proposed development of a recycling centre building over existing private recycling centre facility yard area, with extension of site to accommodate a landscaped earth bund around, site drainage and associated works. Retention of alterations to the private recycling facility site, including changes to the layout and surfacing; the provision of a weigh bridge; additional buildings; attenuation pond and drainage amendments; changes to the type and quality of materials being processed to include green waste, timber and glass, drying of materials, installation/operation of biomass boilers, dry mixed recycling processing, glass processing, composting of green waste, wood shredding, nappies bulking; and change to approved working hours. Retention of alterations at public recycling centre facility, including a steel elevated platform, staff cabin, and operation of recycling shop (amended landscape strategy plan and updated Noise Impact Assessment report received 15/08/25). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
21 Feb 2025
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Validated
8 Oct 2025
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Approved
5 Jan 2026

Approved on 5 Jan 2026 · Planning and Development Committee · Last checked 10 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Rhondda Planning and Development Committee on 27 Nov 2025.

Approved

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because recycling benefits outweighed countryside, visual and residential amenity impacts, with mitigation and conditions.
  • The committee approved the application in accordance with the officer recommendation after hearing the agent and correspondence from an objector.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officer assessment, objections, committee discussion and decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Rhondda's committee minutes of 27 Nov 2025.

Documents 46

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Associated applications 3

Site constraints 3

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.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 4; Coalfield, development low risk area.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 10 October 2026. 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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Important details

Council
Rhondda
Application type
Full Application
Postcode
CF72 8LP
Received
21 Feb 2025
Validated
8 Oct 2025
Ward
Llantrisant And Talbot Green
Case officer
Show
Target decision
3 Dec 2025
Decision
Approve
Decision date
5 Jan 2026
Decision level
Planning and Development Committee
Agent
Highlight Planning

How this decision compares

Decided in 89 days from validation, 35 days slower than Rhondda's median of 54 for full applications. Approved, as 93% of full applications here are.

65%decided within 8 weeks
93%approved
12%go to committee

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Rhondda in the last twelve months, from validation. Rhondda decision record →

Public comments

1comment received
1 objecting

62 neighbours consulted · Last counted 10 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
8 Sept 2025
Committee
27 Nov 2025
Statutory expiry
3 Dec 2025
Env. assessment
No