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PL/10807 - Full planning permission Approved

Proposal

Replacement of the corroded external fire escape, including extension to ground floor level to improve emergency egress; replacement of all external glazing with double‑glazed units; and recladding of the building with an insulated rainscreen cladding system, colour‑matched to replicate the existing yellow and black square façade design Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

23 Apr 2026

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Approved

15 Jun 2026

Approved on 15 Jun 2026 · Last checked 24 Aug 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 6

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 294 m away: Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries / Bae Caerfyrddin ac Aberoedd

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 239 m away: Arfordir Pen-bre / Pembrey Coast; Radon affected area, class 3; National infrastructure project: Gwynt Glas Offshore Wind Farm, at pre-application; Coalfield, development low risk area.

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 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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Important details

Council: Carmarthenshire
Application type: Full planning permission
Postcode: SA16 0EJ
Received: 23 Apr 2026
Validated: 23 Apr 2026
Ward: Pembrey
Parish: Pembrey and Burry Port Town
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 18 Jun 2026
Decision: Full Granted
Decision date: 15 Jun 2026

How this decision compares

Decided in 53 days from validation, about the council's usual 51 days. Approved, as 76% of commercial and major works here are.

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76%approved

51decided in the last year

Plota live figures for commercial and major works decided by Carmarthenshire in the last twelve months, from validation. Carmarthenshire decision record →