Network Rail Basingstoke Campus Gresley Road Basingstoke Hampshire RG21 4FS

25/00477/GPDSPGeneral Permitted Dev - Solar panelsApproved

Prior approval

Approved on 24 April 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application for prior approval for Installation of 19.32 kWp solar canopy array.

Received: 28 February 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
Ward: Norden
Agent: The Urbanists Ltd

ReceivedReceived28 Feb
ValidatedValidated28 Feb
Consult.Consultation25 Mar
TargetTarget Date25 Apr
DecidedDecided24 Apr

Decided in 55 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a solar installation at Network Rail Basingstoke Campus Gresley Road Basingstoke Hampshire RG21 4FS. Basingstoke has handled 6,108 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Basingstoke's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,110 applications in total for the RG21 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode: RG21 4FS
Application type: General Permitted Dev - Solar panels
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 28 February 2025
Consultation expiry: 25 March 2025
Consultation end: 25 March 2025
Last date for comments: 25 March 2025
Target decision date: 25 April 2025
Decision issued: 25 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent: The Urbanists Ltd
Agent address: Westgate House 11 Womanby House Cardiff CF10 1BR

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-13732006
Comments: 0
Documents: 9

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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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.

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© 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.

Source: Basingstoke

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