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RB2026/0904 Refused

Proposal

Conversion of existing outbuilding to provide self-contained ancillary living accommodation Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 02:33

Application progress

✓

Received

1 Jul 2026

✓

Validated

7 Aug 2026

✗

Refused

22 Sept 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 22 Sept 2026 · Delegated (Part 2A) · Last checked 22 Sept 2026

Documents 1

Plans & drawings 1

PDF 01 Location Plan Plan · 17 Aug 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 7

Surface water flood risk

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea

Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

Flood map ↗

Thorpe Hesley conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

Council document ↗

Surface water flood riskCouncil record

Recorded by the council for this site.

Council site ↗

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; Coalfield, development low risk area; Inside the Thorpe Hesley 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

Not green belt · 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
Postcode: S61 2PY
Received: 1 Jul 2026
Validated: 7 Aug 2026
Ward: Keppel Ward
Parish: Non-Parished
Case officer: Show
Decision: REFUSED
Decision date: 22 Sept 2026
Decision level: Delegated (Part 2A)
Applicant: Show
Agent: Architecture By John Cotterill

How this decision compares

Decided in 46 days from validation, about the council's usual 49 days. Refused, as 11% of extensions here are.

This one46d

Council49d

UK55d

81%decided within 8 weeks

89%approved

403decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 17 Aug 2026
Comments by: 17 Sept 2026
Site or press notice: 27 Aug 2026
Statutory expiry: 2 Oct 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