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26/P/0416/CEA - Cert of Lawful Use/Operation - Proposed Approved

Proposal

Installation of Heat Pump in a Conservation Area Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

1 Sept 2026

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Validated

4 Sept 2026

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Consultation

8 Sept 2026

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Approved

25 Sept 2026

Approved on 25 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 29 Sept 2026

Documents 6

Plans & drawings 4

PDF ELEVATIONS SHOWING HEAT PUMP Drawing · 4 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF SITE LOCATION PLAN Drawing · 4 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF SITE PLAN Drawing · 1 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF GROUND FLOOR PLAN Drawing · 1 Sept 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM Forms · 1 Sept 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 7

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea

High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

Flood map ↗

World heritage site: World Heritage Site

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.

Cwmavon conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

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.

Local nature reserve 134 m away: Cwmavon Corridor

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

Radon affected area, class 4; Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. 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: Torfaen
Application type: Cert of Lawful Use/Operation - Proposed
Postcode: NP4 8XF
Received: 1 Sept 2026
Validated: 4 Sept 2026
Ward: Abersychan
Parish: Pontypool Community Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 30 Oct 2026
Decision: Approve unconditionally
Decision date: 25 Sept 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 21 days from validation, 10 days slower than Torfaen's median of 11 for lawful development certificates. Approved, as 90% of lawful development certificates here are.

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