PENLAN FARM, Rhydlewis, Llandysul, Ceredigion, SA44 5QH Data via plota.co.uk

A250002 - Full Planning Approved

Proposal

Change of use from holiday accommodation to communal and hostel accommodation and associated works. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

2 Jan 2025

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Validated

7 Jan 2025

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Committee

8 Oct 2025

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Approved

9 Oct 2025

Approved on 9 Oct 2025 · Planning Committee Main Item / Prif Eitem · Last checked 1 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Ceredigion Development Management Committee on 8 Oct 2025.

Approved

As officers recommended.

Officers advised approval because the managed hostel would meet a social need without harming the countryside or nearby amenities.
The community council raised no objection, while Natural Resources Wales sought further drainage information and no third-party representations were received.
The committee approved the application subject to conditions.

Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, consultation responses and committee decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Ceredigion's committee minutes of 8 Oct 2025.

Documents 12

Site constraints 2

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Afon Teifi

New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.

Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.

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. 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.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 26 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: Ceredigion
Application type: Full Planning
Postcode: SA44 5QH
Received: 2 Jan 2025
Validated: 7 Jan 2025
Ward: Llandysul North and Troedyraur ED
Parish: Troedyraur Community
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 31 Oct 2025
Decision: Approved Subject to Conditions
Decision date: 9 Oct 2025
Decision level: Planning Committee Main Item / Prif Eitem
Applicant: Show
Agent: Archi-Tech

How this decision compares

Decided in 275 days from validation, 219 days slower than Ceredigion's median of 56 for changes of use. Approved, as 73% of changes of use here are.

This one275d

Council56d

UK56d

53%decided within 8 weeks

73%approved

7%go to committee

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