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17 Merton Road Basingstoke Hampshire RG21 5UA

24/02875/HSEHouseholder PermissionApproved
Householder

Approved on 16 May 2025

Council decision: GrantedPlanning committee

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Erection of a solar carport

Received
9 December 2024
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
11
Ward
Norden
  1. Received9 Dec
  2. Validated23 Dec
  3. Consult.14 Jan
  4. Target17 Feb
  5. Decided16 May

Decided in 144 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a solar installation at 17 Merton Road Basingstoke Hampshire RG21 5UA. Basingstoke has handled 2,247 applications of this type. This one was decided in 158 days, 16 weeks longer than Basingstoke's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Norden. We hold 1,110 applications in total for the RG21 postcode area.

94% of full applications at Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
RG21 5UA
Application type
Householder Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 December 2024
Consultation expiry
14 January 2025
Consultation end
14 January 2025
Last date for comments
6 June 2025
Target decision date
17 February 2025
Committee meeting
14 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Heath Copse Wolverton Road Baughurst Tadley RG26 5JH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
21

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Article 4 direction: Basingstoke Town and Chineham and the surrounding villages of Old Basing, Oakley and Sher…
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2023
    5 Sep

    Erection of solar carport

    RefusedHouseholder23/02234/HSE

Source: Basingstoke

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