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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
22,921 approved · 2,644 refused · 1,556 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jan 2005 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Woodland Villas, Lidgett Lane, Pilley, Barnsley, S75 3BW
Received 10 Aug 20202 Wentworth Mews, Mapplewell, Barnsley, S75 6FQ
Received 11 May 2012275 Park Road, Barnsley, S70 1QL
Received 9 Sept 20244 Barcroft Flatt, Barnsley, S75 1HY
Received 17 Mar 2009Flat, 150 Pontefract Road, Barnsley, S71 1HU
Received 1 Jul 2022Land at Dyer Road, Jump, Barnsley.
Received 20 Apr 200932 Storrs Wood View, Cudworth, Barnsley, S72 8TA
Received 2 Jul 201818 The Green, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4JN
Received 22 Jul 20141 Paddock Close, Staincross, Barnsley, S75 6LH
Received 12 Jul 202152 Kensington Road, Old Town, Barnsley, S75 2SS
Received 18 Nov 202127 Oakfield Walk, Pogmoor, Barnsley, S75 2LW
Received 30 Jan 20193 Beaulieu View Mapplewell Barnsley South Yorkshire S75 6FL
Received 20 Jun 201844 High Street, Penistone, Barnsley, S36 6BS
Received 6 Jun 2013Green Moor Cricket Club, Hill Top Lane, Green Moor, Sheffield, S35 7DQ
Received 20 Oct 201516 Queen Street, Barnsley, S70 1RJ
Received 14 Jun 2012236 Barnsley Road, Cudworth, Barnsley, S72 8UH
Received 19 Jan 2011Land off Duke Street, Hoyland, Barnsley, S74 9QR
Received 7 Feb 20131 Poplars Road, Kendray, Barnsley, S70 3NP
Received 29 Feb 201619 Elm Court, Worsbrough Bridge, Barnsley, S70 5EB
Received 7 Sept 2011Land to the south of Lee Lane, Royston, Barnsley
Received 23 Mar 202615 Roman Road, Darton, Barnsley
Received 8 Sept 200613 Jermyn Croft, Dodworth, Barnsley, S75 3LR
Received 10 Feb 2017Barn rear to 3-5 Chantry House, Church Street, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4HL
Received 17 Nov 2016Schofield Road, Darfield, Barnsley, S73 9DZ
Received 23 Jul 2008Records 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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