Planning appeal decision
3 Tees Industrial Estate Chambers Road, Blacker Hill, Barnsley, S74 9SA
Planning appeal 3362015 at 3 Tees Industrial Estate Chambers Road, Blacker Hill, Barnsley, S74 9SA (Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council) was dismissed on 10 June 2025 by Inspector Wilson L, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the proposal on highway safety.
Hand car wash
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Change of use
- Inspector
- Wilson L
- Postcode
- S74 9DG
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the proposal on highway safety
- The effect of the proposal on the amenity of the neighbouring occupants of the business units, with particular reference to noise and disturbance
What decided it
The proposal would have an unacceptable effect on highway safety due to queuing concerns, inadequate parking provision, and the appellant's lack of control over essential parts of the site including access and parking areas.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy T4Policy GD1Policy Poll1
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 115Paragraph 116Paragraph 198
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
See how each was appliedThe decision letter
Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.
With an account
What an account adds to this decision


More decisions in Barnsley
The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025
- Dismissed22 October 20266011687102, Manchester Road, Thurlstone, Sheffield, S369QW
- Dismissed11 May 20266003268166 Barnsley Road, Darfield, Barnsley, S73 9DQ
- Dismissed22 January 20263370772264 Dodworth Road, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S70 6PN
- Dismissed13 January 2026337081825 Cloisters Way, Monk Bretton, Barnsley, S71 2JN
- Allowed22 December 20253370948Land off Goldthorpe Road, Goldthorpe, Rotherham, S63 9DY
The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.
®