Vale Of Rheidol Railway, Pontarfynach, SY23 3JL Data via plota.co.uk

A260573 - Full Planning In Progress

Proposal

This APP1 is submitted in support of a full planning application by Vale of Rheidol Railway (“the Applicant”) for the installation of a ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) array of approximately 135m² at Devil's Bridge Station, Pontarfynach, Ceredigion. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 3 Oct 2026, 19:51

Application progress

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Received

14 Sept 2026

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Validated

18 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 13 Nov 2026

This application is under consideration - no decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 13 Nov 2026 and 12 Dec 2026, from Ceredigion's recent full applications.

Documents 11

Site constraints 4

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.

National nature reserve about 218 m away: Coed Rheidol

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

Also on the record

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; SSSI about 218 m away: Coedydd a Cheunant Rheidol (Rheidol Woods & Gorge).

Not affected

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

Checked on 19 September 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 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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