Unit E Dowlais Top Retail Park Dowlais Merthyr Tydfil CF48 2TA Data via plota.co.uk

P/26/0047 - Advertisement Approved

Proposal

Erection of 3 no. totem poles each to display Retail Park and traders' signage Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

14 Apr 2026

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Approved

15 May 2026

Approved on 15 May 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 4

Agricultural land, grade 5

Very 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. 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; SSSI about 302 m away: Mynyddoedd Llangynidr a Llangatwg, Cefn yr Ystrad a Chomin Merthyr; 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 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: Merthyr Tydfil
Application type: Advertisement
Postcode: CF48 2TA
Received: 14 Apr 2026
Validated: 14 Apr 2026
Ward: DOWLAIS
Case officer: Show
Decision: Advertisement Approval
Decision date: 15 May 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 31 days from validation, 21 days faster than Merthyr Tydfil's median of 52 for commercial premises. Approved, as 95% of commercial premises here are.

This one31d

Council52d

UK56d

59%decided within 8 weeks

95%approved

6%go to committee

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