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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Barnsley website
22,860 approved · 2,644 refused · 1,556 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jan 2005 to 26 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The Views, New Road, Staincross, Barnsley, S75 6GD
Received 6 Nov 2017Land at West Road, Pogmoor, Barnsley
Received 26 Nov 2010Plot 2, Stead Lane, Hoyland
Received 10 Apr 200714-16 Market Hill, Barnsley, S70 2QE
Received 12 Apr 2017Hawthorne Farm Frickley Bridge Lane Brierley Barnsley South Yorkshire S72 9LQ
Received 18 Jan 2006Land to the rear of 31 Sackup Lane, Darton, Barnsley, S75 5AN
Received 24 Feb 2011Land adjacent Sheephouse Farm, Mortimer Road, Penistone, Sheffield
Received 2 May 2008Land at Old Mill Lane, Barnsley, S71 1PJ
Received 20 Aug 20124 Burton Crescent, Monk Bretton, Barnsley, S71 2QD
Received 10 May 2018Throstle Nest Farm, Silkstone Equestrian Centre, Moorend Lane Silkstone Common, Barnsley, S75 4QX
Received 28 Jul 2021Royal Albert Hotel, Wentworth Road, Blacker Hill, Barnsley, S74 0RL
Received 20 Dec 2017Land to the north-west of 24 Grove Street, Worsborough, Barnsley, S70 4SN
Received 9 May 2019Holly Cottage, Old Mill Lane, Thurgoland, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S35 7EG
Received 31 Oct 20062 Manor Farm Close, Carlton, Barnsley, S71 3EH
Received 8 Oct 20155 Grantley Close, Wombwell, Barnsley, S73 0SP
Received 30 Oct 202434 Church Street, Gawber, Barnsley, S75 2RH
Received 13 Oct 20208 Goldthorpe Road Goldthorpe Barnsley South Yorkshire S63 9EP
Received 13 Sept 200510 Barnsley Road, Penistone, Barnsley, S36 8AD
Received 28 Sept 202113 Wordsworth Road, Monk Bretton, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S71 2DF
Received 16 May 2007Land off Keresforth Close Barnsley S70 6RS
Received 25 Aug 2023Wellthorne Lane, Ingbirchworth, Sheffield
Received 27 Nov 20093 Meadow Lane, Darton, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 5PF
Received 19 Apr 20124 Robin Lane, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4EA
Received 20 Oct 2014Units B and C, Land at Capitol Park, Capitol Close, Dodworth, Barnsley
Received 14 Aug 2017Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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