Between Woodbine Cottage and Holly Grove Roundabout, Barnsley Road, Goldthorpe, S72 0JE Data via plota.co.uk

2025/0461 - Full (Regulation 3) Approved

Proposal

Installation of a 5m Galvanised Sculpture, on a 1m foundation Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
21 May 2025
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Validated
3 Jun 2025
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Approved
18 Jun 2026

Approved on 18 Jun 2026 · Planning Regulatory Board · Last checked 17 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Barnsley Planning Regulatory Board on 16 Jun 2026.

Approved

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because the sculpture would create a positive landscape feature with limited Green Belt impact and public benefits.
  • A neighbour supported the development but queried the settlement names, while consultees raised no outstanding objections.
  • The committee voted to grant permission in accordance with the officer recommendation.
Read how the committee decided The proposed sculpture, site history, officers’ assessment, consultation responses and committee decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Barnsley's committee minutes of 16 Jun 2026.

Associated applications 2

Site constraints 5

Coal mining development high risk area
Recorded coal mining features at or near the surface. Most planning applications here need a coal mining risk assessment.
From the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The development high risk area marks recorded coal mining features at or near the surface: mine shafts and adits, shallow workings, mine gas and former opencast sites. Most planning applications there need a coal mining risk assessment; householder applications, changes of use and some minor works are exempt. Mine entry positions come from old plans and can be out by several metres, and unrecorded workings can exist anywhere in the coalfield.
Coal mining risk assessments ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3a
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.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; Nature improvement area: Dearne Valley Green Heart; Green belt about 9 m away: South and West Yorkshire.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 15 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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Important details

Council
Barnsley
Application type
Full (Regulation 3)
Postcode
S72 0JE
Received
21 May 2025
Validated
3 Jun 2025
Ward
Darfield
Parish
Billingley
Case officer
Show
Target decision
29 Jul 2025
Decision
Approve with Conditions
Decision date
18 Jun 2026
Decision level
Planning Regulatory Board
Applicant
Show
Agent
BMBC

How this decision compares

Decided in 380 days from validation, 306 days slower than Barnsley's median of 74 for full applications. Approved, as 88% of full applications here are.

38%decided within 8 weeks
88%approved
215decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
7 May 2026
Env. assessment
No
Barnsley
Planning Authority Score
4.1/10
Below average
#189 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Barnsley is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #252 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Barnsley decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
92%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #74 of 296
94%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #98 of 296
45%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #252 of 296
44%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #174 of 296
97%
Minor dwellings approved
76 decided (1-9 homes)
83%
Major dwellings approved
12 decided (10+ homes)
80%
Change of use approved
54 decided
673
Total decisions
53 refused in the year to March 2026