Wentworth Garden Centre Hague LaneWentworth 9999 Data via plota.co.uk

RB2026/1313 Valid

Proposal

Extension of existing children's play area Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 03:41

Application progress

✓

Received

17 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 12 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 27 Dec 2026, from Rotherham's recent full applications.

Comments are open until 27 Oct 2026

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Documents 1

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form - Without Personal Data document · 16 Sept 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 10

Surface water flood risk

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.

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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 ↗

Coal mining development high risk area

Recorded coal mining features at or near the surface. Most planning applications here need a coal mining risk assessment.

From the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The development high risk area marks recorded coal mining features at or near the surface: mine shafts and adits, shallow workings, mine gas and former opencast sites. Most planning applications there need a coal mining risk assessment; householder applications, changes of use and some minor works are exempt. Mine entry positions come from old plans and can be out by several metres, and unrecorded workings can exist anywhere in the coalfield.

Coal mining risk assessments ↗

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Surface water flood riskCouncil record

Recorded by the council for this site.

Council site ↗

Also on the record

4 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; Radon affected area, class 2; Conservation area about 48 m away: Wentworth; Inside the Wentworth (Rotherham) built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

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
Received: 17 Sept 2026
Validated: 17 Sept 2026
Ward: Hoober Ward
Case officer: Show
Decision level: Proposed to be Delegated
Applicant: Show
Agent: Malcolm Scott Consultants Limited

Decision outlook

Day 41 of the 56-day target. Rotherham usually decides full applications by day 101.

target

prediction

Day 4160 days to the predicted decision (day 101)

24%decided within 8 weeks

100%approved

21decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Rotherham in the last twelve months, from validation. Rotherham decision record →

Public comments

3comments received

Last counted 27 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 18 Sept 2026
Comments by: 27 Oct 2026
Site or press notice: 1 Oct 2026
Statutory expiry: 12 Nov 2026

Rotherham

Planning Authority Score

4.7/10

Below average

#167 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

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