Lighting details for Port Talbot steelworks

Summary

The applicant wants to agree details for external lighting at Port Talbot Steelworks. The details cover the lighting only.

The lighting forms part of a large new steelworks. It could change night-time views and light levels nearby.

The council will decide after the comment period. The supplied details say the wider project already has approval.

What the council wrote

Details to be partially agreed in associated with condition 65 (External Lighting) of application P2024/0711 - Full planning permission for the demolition of existing buildings and structures, partial infill of the BOS lagoon, and construction of a new electric arc furnace-based steel production facility (1 no. arc furnace, 2 no. ladle furnaces). The development includes chemical/material storage and transfer infrastructure, pipework and cabling (above and below ground), buildings, fume and dust treatment plant, water treatment facility and material handling systems, electrical control rooms and power infrastructure, offices and ancillary facilities, together with new and amended roads and rail lines, landscaping and green infrastructure, lighting, hardstanding, CCTV, drainage and associated engineering operations.Outline planning permission (with all matters reserved except for access and landscaping) for the construction of a scrap metal handling facility and associated scrap yards, scrap processing facility, new substation, underground and overground electrical infrastructure, and new and amended roads and rail lines, landscape and green infrastructure, lighting, hardstanding, CCTV, drainage and associated engineering operations - granted on 07/03/25.