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As an interloper, I think Barnsley's charm and attraction are the green fields and smaller industry. Brownfield sites should always go first before releasing green belt land - anywhere - and green belt land here probably has faults beneath it.

Why not improve public transport instead so that residents can get to the larger towns for work? Put the railways back that were removed and increase bus services and travel pass coverage.

Rotherham and Sheffield aren't that far, and nor is West Yorkshire. We just need more bus and rail direct connections.

Go for it BMBC some of us grew up seeing pit headgear on every landscape but at least our Dad's had a job to go to everyday ...

The council want to fill the vast amounts of empty giant warehouses around the area first,Like the big white shed off the dearne valley parkway, You've only got to drive around and see the empty warehousing in the barnsley area what about filling those first ,promote these buildings and the fact that Barnsley has the M1 running straight through it,Besides its should be about helping small to medium business ,There's not many small workshop sized buildings being built to get new business's started that only need about 2000/3000sq feet not 20,000 to 30,000 there just too big,and it's these new small business and entrepreneurs that could turn out to be the next big thing,

Because rob it's in the interest of the council and the local economy to fill these buildings first before alowing the building of new estates ,And has for the giant white shed its empty and has been since it was built the massive sign on it says for sale or rent.Just drive around and count how many are unoccupied.

I'm obviously wasting my time!

The council gave permission for the white elephants to be built in the first place. They should make sure they're being put to the correct use or enforce otherwise. Fill the empty sites first before spending money building new ones.

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They're citing jobs for 18 - 24 year olds, kids just out of school, college and uni who are struggling to find work anywhere. Being able to get to Sheffield or Pontefract would start them out in life. Even for local jobs there are no direct buses.
One example, I'm in Houghton and Hemsworth is at the other end of a road, yet there is no direct bus, which would take 10 minutes max. Instead we have to catch a bus to somewhere else first, adding extra time to the journey, and then waiting for connections in between. There is loads of work at Manvers, which is just behind us. Yet there is no direct bus that would take just 10 minutes. We can't get to Wath or Wombwell or Dodworth or Penistone or loads of other places in under an hour. Because there aren't enough direct buses. So these so called local jobs are going to workers outside the borough who can afford to run cars.
If they developed our old pit (surely a brownfield site) into something, we'd all be able to walk to work again. Giant supermarkets are killing the High Street and the town centre. These are things that would be cheaper to consider first. Instead of granting, say, Tesco another store in Hoyland (which is also more than one bus away) so long as they build a pretty footpath, why not insist Tesco develop a local High Street instead that already has people living within walking distance or on direct routes - bringing employment closer AND saving the High Street. The individual shops (or departments) are already there.
There are loads of ways to consider first before tearing up the landscape and widening commuting distance anyway - and building giant car parks for commuters travelling in.

The massive white shed has just recently been taken on by a company from leeds who are moving to barnsley. Some staff are already in there and others to follow shortly.

Nice to hear that the shed has now got some business in it,But its taken what 6 years to fill it,Companies like that that can take on premises that big are welcome in barnsley,But it's not just about building new estates to boost the economy its the business package that the council come up with to lure them into the area,Its all right building the massive structures but its the rates ,rent and other charges that put potential companies off,If you want to give people jobs why not build a proper retail park in Barnsley and before you start corton wood is in rotherham and the 1 off old mill lane is just crap.

If the council want to boost the economy they should start by withdrawing the objection to the expansion of Cortonwood Retail Park. Although that is probably classed as Rotherham & therefore no business rates income for BMBC at least 50% of employees will be from Barnsley & therefore bring wages into the town.

To say it is a threat to Wombwell is stupid. No big name retailers are going to invest in Wombwell high street. Wombwell is for local small businesses & the market. I suspect the real agenda the council might have is that they'd like to delvelop a retail park at Birdwell just 5 minutes away up the parkway.

my main question would be who owns the land they r planning to allow development on as there is more than enough land available for sale without using green belt land .only after all the space which is empty on all the industrial est and brown land should it be considered

always wondered how the old barrow pit site escaped development and became green belt while most others have been

Also, there is a new generation of young farners emerging in the country who can't afford to buy their own land. Before the pits, Barnsley was farming couintry. Why not encourage these young farmers and help them manage the land? Local produce, local small business, fewer food miles, better quality produce, local employment, better quality of life. Bang.

I'm afraid that while ever there are huge fortunes to be made by importing manufactured goods from the far-east the prospect for our young people will remain bleak. When countries like Indonesia, China and India have a huge labour forces who will gladly work for less wages and less workplace rights than is permitted in the EU this situation will just go on. We need fair play for British and EU workers, what are our politicians doing about it ? NOTHING.

There is a lot of green belt land that has been down graded to white belt land in the last few years, so why not start with this and save the green belt land?

It,s OK selling green belt in the hopes of it creating jobs for people from South Yorkshire, but are the new business,s going to use employment agency,s to recruit the employee,s needed, if this is going to be the case then there will be no jobs for anyone who is from this area as these job,s will be offered to the foreign work force that now seem to be the higher percentage of employed in Barnsley, this is because in my experience the agency employ foreign staff to recruit and put other nationalities forward for the jobs first.

There are quite a lot of warehouse space to filk in industrial units at Goldthorpe and Thurnscoe. However without a local development agency actively selling them with tax breaks and incentives. Plus you need active local government who actually care about the town.

Send all the immigrants back and improve public transport and rail networks to other large nearby towns such as Pontefract for example. There used to be a direct rail link to Pontefract and if you go there on the bus it costs a fortune.

It was only a matter of time before some racist suggested sending immigrants home. Barnsley barely has any. I am guessing that foreigners are employed by firms because they accept less pay and have a better attitude and are willing to work and turn up every day.

Investment in jobs has to be mitigated against the loss of valuable habitat loss, so careful consideration of sites and pre-existing sites should be seen. Barnsley has a plethora of fantastic habitats that most boroughs would be jealous of, unfortunately lots of decision makers are ignorant of the money and jobs this could bring. Transport is very poor for people to access jobs but the town is also a very insular place with many people not even contemplating working out of the boro. Young people don't just need jobs available they need qualifications and a work ethic too, if we continue to have failing schools and this acceptance they failure is the norm due to lack of good role models then employers will not want to hire young people in the first place.