This petition is to STOP the unnecessary destruction of our beautiful Green countryside and fields due to the “Hoyland West/North & South Masterplan Framework” building proposal and the development of MyHermes distribution centre, we are a small village on the outskirts of Barnsley and we do not want this, the destruction to our local environment and wildlife is totally unacceptable. Hoyland is home to an 18th-century folly called Lowe Stand, built as a lookout and hunting lodge shortly before his death by the first Marquess of Rockingham, at the highest point in the area some 593 ft above sea level.[3] On the sloping ground below this folly is Upper Hoyland Hall, the former home of a notable family of yeoman farmers, the Townends, who owned extensive land in Hoyland.

The Church of England parish church is St Peter's, a Grade II listed building dating from 1830. It is in the Gothic Revival style and is built of sandstone and slate roofed.[4] The Roman Catholic church (1929) is of brick and tile construction in the Italian Romanesque style, with a square bell tower.[5] The former Princess Theatre on West Street is a brick building dating from 1893.[6]

Among Hoyland's remaining notable older residences and former residences are Hoyland Hall, a late Georgian property, situated in a small park off Market Street and sometime home to William Vizard, first owner of Hoyland Silkstone Colliery, who was the attorney to Queen Caroline at her celebrated trial in the House of Lords. Also in or off Market Street are Kirk House, Kirk Cottage, Bark House, Thistle House and Riversdale. Netherfield House is situated near the town centre and Hoyland's oldest known surviving residence and at one time the home of a Townend, being in recent years used as a dentist's, is situated in West Street (formerly Finkle Street).

Lastly the great British film Kes from 1968 is set around the villages of Hoyland and Tankersley, at Junction 36 of the M1 between Sheffield and Barnsley, the EXACT location for this proposed development.

There has already been massive structural developments at the old Birdwell/Dernvalley/junction 36 of the M1 roundabout location, creating gigantic industrial units, restaurants, fast food outlets and other avenues, the idea to now seep further into a SMALL Village and increase the rate of development is disgusting and unacceptable, and the sheer disbelief that not one but TWO MASSIVE developments at both North and West ends of Hoyland have been proposed, literally destroying our entire village countryside and ecosystems, We the people of Barnsley and villagers of Hoyland hereby sign this petition as acknowledgement that we DO Not want this, and we will fight to stop it all costs, MyHermes must be stopped.