LLETTYTWPPA, Lampeter, Ceredigion, SA48 8JY Data via plota.co.uk

A260199 - Full Planning Approved

Proposal

Change of use from an existing working farm to D1/Non residential institution - A new Education Establishment for 16years + pupils. (The site will remain a working farm with practical lessons taught to students alongside farming operations). Temporary installation of 2no. 6.1m x 3.0m mobile toilet blocks on the site to serve the students attending practical lessons/work experience on site. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 1 Oct 2026, 02:19

Application progress

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Received

31 Mar 2026

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Validated

21 Apr 2026

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Committee

8 Jul 2026

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Approved

16 Jul 2026

Approved on 16 Jul 2026 · Planning Committee Main Item / Prif Eitem · Last checked 1 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Ceredigion Development Management Committee on 8 Jul 2026.

Approved

No officer report was published for this decision; this summary is from the committee minutes.

The application sought to change part of a working farm into an education establishment for students aged 16 and over, alongside continuing farm operations.
Temporary mobile toilet blocks were proposed to serve students attending practical lessons on site.
The application was approved subject to conditions.

Source: Plota analysis of Ceredigion's committee minutes, Ceredigion Development Management Committee minutes, 8 July 2026 .

Documents 8

Site constraints 5

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Afon Teifi

New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.

Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.

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.

Special area of conservation about 213 m away: Afon Teifi / River Teifi

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

Also on the record

SSSI about 213 m away: Afon Teifi; Radon affected area, class 4.

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 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: Ceredigion
Application type: Full Planning
Postcode: SA48 8JY
Received: 31 Mar 2026
Validated: 21 Apr 2026
Ward: Lampeter ED
Parish: Lampeter Community
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 17 Jul 2026
Decision: Approved Subject to Conditions
Decision date: 16 Jul 2026
Decision level: Planning Committee Main Item / Prif Eitem
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 86 days from validation, 47 days slower than Ceredigion's median of 39 for agricultural works. Approved, as 82% of agricultural works here are.

This one86d

Council39d

UK44d

75%decided within 8 weeks

82%approved

104decided in the last year

Plota live figures for agricultural works decided by Ceredigion in the last twelve months, from validation. Ceredigion decision record →