Wentworth Park, Wentworth Woodhouse Cortworth LaneWentworth 9999 Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Change of use for second floor of South Pavilion & South Quadrant to holiday let apartment, including installation of lighting bollards along car park and pedestrian access path, external lighting at main entrance door on footbridge and the installation of an air source heat pump, to roof of South Quadrant, with a lead-clad plant screen Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
17 Jun 2026
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Validated
11 Aug 2026
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Approved
17 Sept 2026

Approved on 17 Sept 2026 · Proposed to be Delegated · Last checked 20 Sept 2026

Site constraints 8

Surface water flood risk
9 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Wentworth Woodhouse, Grade I, about 10 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II*, 7 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
Show all 9 with distances
Historic England ↗
Green belt: South and West Yorkshire
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
Read the government guidance ↗
Registered park or garden: Wentworth Woodhouse
Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
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. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.
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.
Surface water flood riskCouncil record
Recorded by the council for this site.
Council site ↗
Also on the record
Heritage at risk about 9 m away: Wentworth Woodhouse; 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
Rotherham
Postcode
S62 7TQ
Received
17 Jun 2026
Validated
11 Aug 2026
Ward
Hoober Ward
Parish
Wentworth
Case officer
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Decision
GRANTED CONDITIONALLY
Decision date
17 Sept 2026
Decision level
Proposed to be Delegated
Applicant
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Agent
Donald Insall Associates Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 37 days from validation, 15 days faster than Rotherham's median of 52 for changes of use. Approved, as 88% of changes of use here are.

61%decided within 8 weeks
88%approved
6%go to committee

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Rotherham in the last twelve months, from validation. Rotherham decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
12 Aug 2026
Comments by
10 Sept 2026
Site or press notice
20 Aug 2026
Statutory expiry
6 Oct 2026
Rotherham
Planning Authority Score
4.7/10
Below average
#167 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

Rotherham ranks #107 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Rotherham is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 71% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 71% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Rotherham decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
79%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #266 of 296
71%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #295 of 296
72%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #107 of 296
32%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #68 of 296
78%
Minor dwellings approved
63 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
20 decided (10+ homes)
83%
Change of use approved
58 decided
750
Total decisions
156 refused in the year to March 2026