Firbeck Hall New Road Firbeck 9999 Data via plota.co.uk

RB2025/1605 Approved

Proposal

Application to undertake works to trees protected by RMBC TPO 1 (1992) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
9 Dec 2025
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Validated
22 Dec 2025
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Approved
2 Mar 2026

Approved on 2 Mar 2026 · Proposed to be Delegated · Last checked 14 Oct 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 5

Green belt: South and West Yorkshire
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
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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. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.
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.
Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
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 17 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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Application to undertake works to trees protected by RMBC TPO 5 (1977)

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Important details

Council
Rotherham
Received
9 Dec 2025
Validated
22 Dec 2025
Ward
Dinnington Ward
Parish
Firbeck
Case officer
Show
Decision
GRANTED CONDITIONALLY
Decision date
2 Mar 2026
Decision level
Proposed to be Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
Sheffield Tree Care

How this decision compares

Decided in 70 days from validation, 31 days faster than Rotherham's median of 101 for full applications. Approved, as 100% of full applications here are.

24%decided within 8 weeks
100%approved
21decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
9 Dec 2025
Comments by
24 Feb 2026
Statutory expiry
16 Feb 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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings