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RB2025/1494 Refused

Proposal

Outline application for residential development of 5 dwellings including details of access Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
14 Nov 2025
✓
Validated
18 Nov 2025
✗
Refused
26 Feb 2026
Appeal
Appeal lodged

Refused on 26 Feb 2026 · Proposed to be Delegated · Last checked 21 Oct 2026

Site constraints 6

Surface water flood risk
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
Radon affected area, class 2; Nature improvement area: Dearne Valley Green Heart; Coalfield, development low risk area; Green belt about 7 m away: South and West Yorkshire.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 17 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
14 Nov 2025
Validated
18 Nov 2025
Ward
Hoober Ward
Parish
Wentworth
Case officer
Show
Decision
REFUSED
Decision date
26 Feb 2026
Decision level
Proposed to be Delegated
Applicant
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Agent
Paul Bedwell Town Planning

How this decision compares

Decided in 100 days from validation, about the council's usual 101 days. Refused, as 0% of full applications here are.

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

1comment received
1 objecting

Last counted 21 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
18 Nov 2025
Comments by
9 Jan 2026
Statutory expiry
27 Feb 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