Royd Farm,Magdalen Road,Meltham, Data via plota.co.uk

NP/K/1224/1354 - Full Planning Permission Refused

Proposal

Restoration of The Royd (farmhouse with adjoining traditional barn) to create dwelling and agricultural store and associated works Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 9 Sept 2026, 22:11

Application progress

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Received

24 Mar 2026

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Refused

2 Sept 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 2 Sept 2026 · Last checked 9 Sept 2026

Documents 43

Consultation & comments 13

Site constraints 3

Peak District National Park

The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.

Agricultural land, grade 5

Very poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

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.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England 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: Peak District
Application type: Full Planning Permission
Received: 24 Mar 2026
Validated: 24 Mar 2026
Parish: Meltham
Case officer: Show
Decision: REFUSED
Decision date: 2 Sept 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 162 days from validation, 110 days slower than Peak District's median of 52 for full applications. Refused, as 16% of full applications here are.

This one162d

Council52d

UK55d

75%decided within 8 weeks

84%approved

158decided in the last year

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