Vale Of Rheidol Railway, Pontarfynach, SY23 3JL Data via plota.co.uk

A260578 - Listed Building Consent In Progress

Proposal

Raising the station office structure from its original floor footing to a floor level corresponding with the 2014 raised platform level, including provision of new building sub-structure and associated adjustment of yard ground levels; removal of the existing ramped platform access to the station office to improve wheelchair accessibility; reinstatement of the original 1902 external detailing in place of post 1922 great western railway and later alterations, including the replacement of the external circa 1935 gwr gents toilet facility with an external faithful replica of the 1902 gents urinal, containing a contemporary internal fit-out for staff sanitary use. Also an extensive structural repair of the building's timber frame. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 3 Oct 2026, 08:19

Application progress

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Received

25 Aug 2026

Decision

Expected by 20 Oct 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 19 Oct 2026, from Ceredigion's recent commercial and major works.

Documents 11

Site constraints 4

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.

National nature reserve about 218 m away: Coed Rheidol

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

Also on the record

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; SSSI about 218 m away: Coedydd a Cheunant Rheidol (Rheidol Woods & Gorge).

Not affected

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

Checked on 29 September 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 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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