Land at Tir-Y-Gelli Farm, Ynysywbwl, Pontypridd, CF37 3PG Data via plota.co.uk

26/0094/SSO - EIA Screening/Scoping Decided

Proposal

The intention is to make a planning application for full planning permission for the construction, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of a ground mounted solar farm with an export capacity of circa 33MW, complete with landscaping, associated infrastructure, and the provision of access and operational access tracks. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 13 Sept 2026, 07:00

Application progress

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Received

3 Feb 2026

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Validated

4 Feb 2026

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EIA Required

24 Feb 2026

EIA Required on 24 Feb 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 13 Sept 2026

Documents 3

Statements & assessments 1

PDF FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT (FRM) / LEAD LOCAL FLOOD AUTHORITY (LLFA) CONSULTN · 2 Mar 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 4

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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.

SSSI about 90 m away: Waun Goch, Penrhiw-Caradog

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · 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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