Mounton House Special School Bayfield Road Mounton Monmouthshire NP16 6LA Data via plota.co.uk

DM/2026/00684 - Fast Track Full Planning Permission Pending Consideration

Proposal

Change of use and repurposing of former school site to a sui generis estate management facility including demolition of existing school buildings, retention and refurbishment of the former sports hall for operational storage, and erection of new welfare, office, storage and service yard buildings. Associated works include contractors yard, landscaping, biodiversity enhancements, sustainable drainage, permeable surfacing, parking and renewable energy installations Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

2 Jun 2026

✓

Consultation

9 Jun 2026

Decision

Expected by 28 Jul 2026

As of 14 Aug 2026, the council is no longer showing this application on their planning portal. It may have been withdrawn or re-listed under a different reference. We've stopped checking it for updates.

Documents 35

Statements & assessments 18

PDF MCC BIODIVERSITY COMMENT Consultee Comment · 16 Jul 2026 View ↗

PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Public Comment · 26 Jun 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 6

Wye Valley National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

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.

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Registered park or garden 63 m away: Mounton House

Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

Also on the record

Conservation area 63 m away: Mounton; 4 listed buildings within 150 m.

Not affected

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

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, 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: Monmouthshire
Application type: Fast Track Full Planning Permission
Postcode: NP16 6LA
Received: 2 Jun 2026
Validated: 2 Jun 2026
Ward: Shirenewton
Parish: Mathern Community Council
Target decision: 28 Jul 2026
Applicant: Show

Decision outlook

Day 129, past the statutory target. 83% of demolitions in Monmouthshire are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 13 Aug 2026.

target

predicted

Day 12973 days past the 56-day target

66%decided within 8 weeks

100%approved

42decided in the last year

Plota live figures for demolitions decided by Monmouthshire in the last twelve months, from validation. Monmouthshire decision record →