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Allowed19 November 20253365059

Land off Moat Lane, Wickersley, S66 1DZ

Planning appeal 3365059 at Land off Moat Lane, Wickersley, S66 1DZ (Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council) was allowed on 19 November 2025 by Inspector Heward H, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of construction traffic on highway safety with regard to pedestrians on Green Lane.

the erection of a100MW battery storage facility, creation of bund and associated earthworks

Authority
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
Appeal type
other · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Hearing
Development
utilities-energy · Unknown
Inspector
Heward H
Postcode
S66 1DZ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • The effect of construction traffic on highway safety with regard to pedestrians on Green Lane

What decided it

The Inspector concluded that construction traffic impacts on Green Lane could be safely and adequately mitigated through highway improvement works and a Construction Traffic Management Plan secured by planning conditions, and that the Council's highway safety objection was not substantiated by qualified evidence.

No unacceptable harm to highway or pedestrian safety was found, and the Inspector afforded significant weight to the renewable energy benefits under NPPF paragraph 168(a), supporting the decision to allow the appeal.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy CS30
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 115Paragraph 116Paragraph 161Paragraph 168
Judgments
Bellway Homes Ltd v SSCLG & Cheshire East Council CO/302/2015

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