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23/0339/FUL - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Retention and completion of timber outbuilding and demolition of existing commercial outbuilding previously used for storage for previous business use. Proposed timber store outbuilding to be used for storage for business use & personal welfare facility use in connection with an allotment at the site (Amended plans received 24/10/2024) Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 10 Oct 2026, 06:42

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Application progress

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Received

24 Mar 2023

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Validated

12 Dec 2025

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Approved

5 Feb 2026

Approved on 5 Feb 2026 · Planning and Development Committee · Last checked 3 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Rhondda Planning and Development Committee on 29 Jan 2026.

Approved

As officers recommended.

Officers advised approval because the building replaces an existing structure without materially changing the site’s use or character.
Neighbours objected over possible residential use, traffic, privacy, mining stability, landscape, biodiversity, waste and enforcement.
The committee resolved to approve the application in accordance with the officer recommendation.

Read how the committee decided The full page covers the proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, consultation responses, speakers and the committee’s decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Rhondda's committee minutes of 29 Jan 2026.

Documents 30

Site constraints 3

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.

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

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Also on the record

Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

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

Checked on 6 October 2026. 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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