Land North of Hemingfield Road, Hemingfield, Barnsley, S73 0PW

Planning appeal 3359917 at Land North of Hemingfield Road, Hemingfield, Barnsley, S73 0PW (Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council) was allowed on 1 August 2025 by Inspector Davies B, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Housing delivery and land supply.

‘Outline planning application for demolition of existing structures and erection of residential dwellings with associated infrastructure and open space. All matters reserved apart from access into the site’

Authority: Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Appeal type: major · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: residential · Major dwellings
Inspector: Davies B
Postcode: S73 0PW

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Housing delivery and land supply
Safeguarded land
Comprehensive delivery of neighbouring land
Highway safety
Sustainability of the location of the site
Agricultural land
Landscape
Ecology and biodiversity
Green space

What decided it

The severe, unremedied shortfall in the Council's five-year housing land supply, which reduced the weight given to conflict with the safeguarded land policy and attracted very substantial weight in favour of the housing benefits.

The considerable benefits from market and affordable housing delivery, together with minor benefits from transport, green infrastructure, biodiversity net gain and other matters, outweighed the reduced-weight conflict with Policy GB6 and the small weight of landscape harm under Policy LC1.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy H1Policy H2Policy H7Policy GB6Policy GD1Policy T4Policy T3Policy LC1Policy BIO10Policy GS1Policy GI1
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 79Paragraph 115Paragraph 110Paragraph 187Paragraph 57Paragraph 135Paragraph 96

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