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26/0100/FUL - Full Application Refused

Proposal

Proposed tipping and recycling operation (Retrospective) (Amended / Additional Drawings and Noise Report received 02/07/2026). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 09:16

Application progress

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Received

4 Feb 2026

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Validated

2 Jul 2026

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Refused

11 Aug 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 11 Aug 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 11 Aug 2026

Documents 28

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF DECISION NOTICE Decision Notice · 11 Aug 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 6

PDF HIGHWAYS AND TRANSPORTATION CONSULTN · 5 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF MATERIALS PROCESSING METHOD STATEMENT Supporting Info · 14 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF NOISE REPORT Supporting Info · 3 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF HIGHWAYS AND TRANSPORTATION CONSULTN · 7 May 2026 View ↗ PDF DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT Supporting Info · 10 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE STATEMENT Supporting Info · 10 Mar 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 13

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM Application Form · 4 Feb 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 4

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. 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.

SSSI about 90 m away: Waun Goch, Penrhiw-Caradog

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; 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: Rhondda
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: CF37 3PG
Received: 4 Feb 2026
Validated: 2 Jul 2026
Ward: Ynysybwl
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 27 Aug 2026
Decision: Refuse
Decision date: 11 Aug 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 40 days from validation, 17 days faster than Rhondda's median of 57 for commercial and major works. Refused, as 10% of commercial and major works here are.

This one40d

Council57d

UK57d

48%decided within 8 weeks

90%approved

33%go to committee

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