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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
22,546 approved · 2,644 refused · 1,557 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jan 2005 to 30 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 6 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land north of Shaw Lane, Carlton, Barnsley, S71 3HH
Received 15 Sept 202610 Moorcrest Rise, Staincross, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 6NX
Received 24 Aug 2006Naylor Concrete Products, Clough Green, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AB
Received 1 Aug 200619 Woodvale Close, Higham, Barnsley
Received 25 Jan 2007Well Hill Farm, Well Hill Road, Greenmoor, Wortley, Nr Sheffield
Received 27 Mar 200712A Bala Street, Barnsley, S Yorks, S71 1DY
Received 29 Jul 2010Royal Oak Inn, Barnsley Road, Platts Common, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S74 0QN
Received 13 Dec 200612 Roche Close, Monk Bretton, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S71 2QL
Received 27 Nov 2007Land off Bleachcroft Way, Stairfoot, Barnsley, S70 3PA
Received 17 Jun 200943 Barnsley Road, Brierley, Barnsley, S72 9JT
Received 18 Dec 201853 Huddersfield Road, Barnsley, S75 1DR
Received 31 Oct 2008Holgate School, Shaw Lane, Barnsley, S70 6EP
Received 16 Jul 2010109 Upper Hoyland Road, Hoyland, Barnsley, S74 9NL
Received 20 May 2026Land to the west of Sheffield Road, Hoyland, Barnsley
Received 11 May 2021Cannon Hall Open Farm, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Received 24 Oct 2019139 Furlong Road Bolton-upon-Dearne Rotherham S63 8HD
Received 21 Jul 2012Wentworth Way, Wentworth Industrial Park, Tankersley, Barnsley, S75 3DH
Received 22 Jun 2011Swaithe Villa Lodge, Mitchell Street, Worsbrough Dale, Barnsley, S70 3QF
Received 3 Mar 20258 Stonegarth Close, Cudworth, Barnsley, S72 8JF
Received 16 Jun 20216 Hickleton Court, Thurnscoe, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S63 0QF
Received 9 Aug 200710 First Avenue, Royston, Barnsley, S71 4DA
Received 11 Jun 2014Former Goldthorpe Primary School Site, High Street, Goldthorpe, Rotherham, S63 9NQ
Received 29 Apr 2019Queen Anne Lodge, Rockley Lane, Worsbrough, Barnsley
Received 19 Sept 2006117 High Street, Dodworth, Barnsley, S75 3RQ
Received 21 Oct 2016Records 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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