Gyfylchi Farm Road Leading East From Tonmawr Pontrhydyfen Neath Port Talbot SA12 9SP Data via plota.co.uk

P2026/0689 - Existing Lawful Development Certificate Awaiting decision

Proposal

Certificate of Existing Lawful Development for the use of the land as an outdoor mountain bike/cycling track (Use Class D2). Data via plota.co.uk

Track application Save this application and get an email when its status or decision changes. Alerts nearby Get email alerts for new planning applications near this address.

View original council record ↗Last checked 28 Oct 2026, 05:10

Application progress

✓

Received

22 Oct 2026

✓

Consultation

26 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 16 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 16 Dec 2026.

The consultation period closed on 26 Oct 2026.

Documents

View the documents on the council's website ↗

Site constraints 3

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.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 4; Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

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

Checked on 27 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.

Work with planning data?

Every application in Neath - and every UK council - as a live feed, an API, or a bulk CSV export.

About Plota's data service

Nearby new applications

5 Oct 2026Decided

Mynydd Forch Dwm Windfarm Tonmawr Neath

Request for a screening opinion under Regulation 6 of the Town and Country Plann...

P2026/0607

Important details

Council: Neath
Application type: Existing Lawful Development Certificate
Postcode: SA12 9SP
Received: 22 Oct 2026
Validated: 22 Oct 2026
Ward: Cymmer & Glyncorrwg
Parish: Port Talbot
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 16 Dec 2026
Applicant: Show