Margam Park Main Entrance Kiosk Water Street Margam SA13 2TJ Data via plota.co.uk

P2026/0392 - Full Plans Awaiting decision

Proposal

Demolition of existing ticket structure and construction of replacement park entry building, drainage works and associated engineering works Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 09:19

Application progress

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Received

12 Jun 2026

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Validated

11 Aug 2026

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Consultation

12 Aug 2026

Decision

Expected by 9 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 9 Oct 2026; it is now day 59.

The consultation period closed on 5 Sept 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 8

4 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: Margam Castle, Grade I, about 9 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade I, 2 Grade II*, 1 Grade II

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

Show all 4 with distances

9 mMargam CastleGrade I
51 mTerrace Walls and Screen at Margam CastleGrade II*
63 mStone Steps in Terraced GardenGrade II
67 mService Buildings including Courtyard Walls at Margam CastleGrade II*

Historic England ↗

Registered park or garden: Margam Park

Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.

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

Margam Park 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.

Agricultural land, grade 2

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.

Also on the record

Scheduled monument about 166 m away: Mynydd y Castell Camp; Radon affected area, class 4; Coalfield, development low risk area; National infrastructure project about 1958 m away: Internal Power Generation Enhancement for Port Talbot Steelworks.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3

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 Planning Inspectorate, 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: Neath
Application type: Full Plans
Postcode: SA13 2TJ
Received: 12 Jun 2026
Validated: 11 Aug 2026
Ward: Margam & Taibach
Parish: Port Talbot
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 9 Oct 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Neath Port Talbot CBC

Decision outlook

Day 59, past the statutory target. 90% of demolitions in Neath are decided within thirteen weeks, which runs to 10 Nov 2026; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 7 Oct 2026.

predicted

Day 593 days past the 56-day target

73%decided within 8 weeks

97%approved

32decided in the last year

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