Nant Helen Surface Mine Coelbren Neath Powys

This site has had 3 applications since 2023.

• 25/0320/SO Awaiting decision

  Nant Helen Surface Mine Coelbren Neath Powys

  EIA Screening Opinion under Regulation 6(1) of Town & County Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2017 in relation to a Section 73 application seeking to vary conditions associated with the approved planning permission 19/1899/REM (alterations to the restoration strategy)

  Submitted 28 Feb 2025 Outline
• 23/0694/RES Awaiting decision

  Nant Helen Surface Mine Coelbren Neath Powys

  Application for the approval of reserved matters (landscaping, layout and appearance - track and substation only) in respect of phase 1a of 21/0559/OUT

  Submitted 28 Apr 2023 Reserved matters

1. 28 Apr 2023

   Received by Powys

2. 25 May 2023

   Validated

   Checked as complete and ready for consideration.

3. 13 Aug 2026

   Added to PlanIndex

4. Decision

   Awaiting decision

   Decision expected by 20 July 2023, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.

   Powys took a median of 62 days over the applications it decided in the last year.

• 21/0559/OUT Granted

  Land At And Surrounding Nant Helen Open Cast Coal Site, Powys And Onllwyn Distribution Centre, Neath Port Talbot

  Development of a Global Centre of Rail Excellence, comprising of two test tracks of loop configuration being an electrified high speed rolling stock test track of 6.9km in length and an electrified low speed infrastructure test track of 4.5km, with overhead line equipment (OLE) and dual platform station test environment; together with operations and control offices (including staff accommodation and welfare), shunter cabins (2 no.), research and development, education and training, rolling stock storage sidings and maintenance/cleaning/decommissioning facilities; associated, drainage, internal vehicular accesses, branch line rail connection, staff and visitor car parking, lighting, electrical infrastructure (including substations and lineside shore supplies and transformers), fencing (perimeter security, acoustic and stock proof), land reformation and hard and soft landscaping, together with demolition of existing buildings/structures (cross-boundary application - see Neath Port Talbot Application ref P2021/0327

  Decided 5 Aug 2021 Outline

This application is with Powys for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Powys decided condition discharge and variation applications in a median of 55 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.

This application deals with conditions on an existing permission, supplying the details a condition requires or asking to vary or remove one, without reopening the permission itself. More in our guide to planning application types.

• Land At And Surrounding Nant Helen Open Cast Coal Site, Powys And Onllwyn Distribution Centre, Neath Port Talbot

  21/0559/OUT Submitted 24 Mar 2021 207m away

  Development of a Global Centre of Rail Excellence, comprising of two test tracks of loop configuration being an electrified high speed rolling stock test track of 6.9km in length and an electrified low speed infrastructure test track of 4.5km, with overhead line equipment (OLE) and dual platform station test environment; together with operations and control offices (including staff accommodation and welfare), shunter cabins (2 no.), research and development, education and training, rolling stock storage sidings and maintenance/cleaning/decommissioning facilities; associated, drainage, internal vehicular accesses, branch line rail connection, staff and visitor car parking, lighting, electrical infrastructure (including substations and lineside shore supplies and transformers), fencing (perimeter security, acoustic and stock proof), land reformation and hard and soft landscaping, together with demolition of existing buildings/structures (cross-boundary application - see Neath Port Talbot Application ref P2021/0327

  Granted Outline Demolition 265 docs

• Nant Helen Surface Mine Coelbren Neath Powys

  25/0320/SO Submitted 28 Feb 2025 280m away

  86% historically approved · decision due ~28 Apr

  EIA Screening Opinion under Regulation 6(1) of Town & County Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2017 in relation to a Section 73 application seeking to vary conditions associated with the approved planning permission 19/1899/REM (alterations to the restoration strategy)

  Awaiting decision Outline 7 docs

• Nant Helen Surface Mine Coelbren Neath Powys

  23/0694/RES Submitted 28 Apr 2023 341m away

  86% historically approved · decision due ~14 Aug

  Application for the approval of reserved matters (landscaping, layout and appearance - track and substation only) in respect of phase 1a of 21/0559/OUT

  Awaiting decision Reserved matters 21 docs

• P/26/0145/DIS Granted

  TY RHYD, CASTELLMOCH FAWR, LLANRHAEADR YM MOCHNANT, OSWESTRY, SY10 0AQ

  discharge of conditions 3 & 4 of planning approval 26/0013/LBC

  1 May 2026 Conditions
• P/26/0714/DIS Granted

  LAND AT ROUGH CLOSE, KINNERTON, PRESTEIGNE, LD8 2RA

  Discharge of condition 4 of planning approval 23/1682/FUL

  2 Jul 2026 Conditions
• P/26/0099/DIS Granted

  Land Adjacent to the Fron Middletown, Welshpool, SY21 8EN

  Discharge of conditions 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 19 from planning approval P/2017/0010

  28 Apr 2026 Conditions
• P/26/0647/DIS Granted

  Land at Former Pen Y Bryn and Ael Y Bryn, Pen-y Bryn, Ystradgynlais, SA9 1JA

  Discharge of condition 9 of planning approval 23/0485/FUL

  17 Jul 2026 Conditions
• P/26/0575/DIS Granted

  Pont Maesmochnant Bridge, Llanrhaeadr-Ym-Mochnant, SY10 0AE

  Discharge of condition 4, 5 & 7 of planning approval 26/0249/LBC

  7 Jul 2026 Conditions