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Guide Price£450,000

Chapel Street, Shafton, Barnsley

Key Features

  • Residential Development Site
  • Outline Planning Permission for up to 5 units
  • Planning Reference 2025/0141

Description

This well-located development site benefits from outline planning consent with details of access to provide up to 5 units. Serviced by a private driveway in an enclosed setting, it lies within an established residential area in the village of Shafton.

Being close to a wide variety of local amenities including a health centre, junior & senior schools, together with local shops, the property is also within easy travelling distance of Barnsley, Pontefract and Wakefield.

The site is easily accessible to Sheffield City Centre, Barnsley and the A1 and M1 networks together with the Peak District National Park.

Map Location

Property details

Tenure
Freehold
Council Tax Band
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Date Posted
2026-01-29

Utilities & Restrictions

Utilities

Electricity
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Water
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Heating
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Broadband
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Sewerage
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Rights & Restrictions

Public Rights of Way
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Private Rights of Way
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Restrictions
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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

Accessibility
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Parking
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Garden
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Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

1.8 Gbps

Gigabit full fibre · available to 71% of premises

Suitable for

  • 4K streaming on every screen
  • Full-time home working
  • Online gaming & big downloads

Fixed wireless access may also be an option here.

Mobile signal

CallsDataEE Good GoodO2 Good GoodThree Good GoodVodafone Good Good

Outdoor predictions; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

  • Lift Shafton495 metresNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    247
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Cherry Dale Primary School0.8 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    326
    Type
    Community school
  • South Hiendley Primary School1.2 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    184
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Brierley Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School1.3 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    205
    Type
    Voluntary controlled school
    Faith
    Church of England
  • Churchfield Primary School1.3 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    5 to 11
    Pupils
    419
    Type
    Academy converter

Secondary

  • Outwood Academy Shafton0.6 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    1,377
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Outwood Academy Carlton1.7 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    1,109
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Holy Trinity Catholic and Church of England School2.3 milesOfsted: Requires improvement *
    Ages
    3 to 16
    Pupils
    1,108
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
    Faith
    Church of England/Roman Catholic
  • Outwood Academy Hemsworth2.9 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,101
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Crofton Academy4.3 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    1,045
    Type
    Academy converter

* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Sainsburys Shafton Local, Shafton378 metres
Aldi Cudworth, Cudworth1.2 miles
Co-op Cudworth, Cudworth1.3 miles

GP surgery

The Rose Tree Pms Practice1.3 miles

Pharmacy

Shafton Pharmacy455 metres

Hospital

Kendray Hospital3.8 miles

Green space

Public Park Or Garden226 metres

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.

Getting Around

Nearest station

Fitzwilliam Rail Station2.9 miles

Nearest bus stop

High Street/Chapel Street100 metres

Typical drive times

Royston7 min · 3.5 miles
Barnsley10 min · 6 miles
Hemsworth7 min · 3.7 miles
South Kirkby9 min · 4.8 miles
Wakefield (city)20 min · 8.5 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

From Environment Agency flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Flood Zone 1Lower risk

Surface water

Outside the mapped risk bandsVery low risk

The detail behind these bandings

The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.

  • Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
  • Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
  • Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
  • Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
  • Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
  • Ground risks (included in the full report)
  • Sold prices nearby (included in the full report)

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