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5 - 6 Greenfield Crescent Birmingham B15 3BE

2023/07695/PAPermitted Development Commercial from May 2013Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 12 December 2023

Council decision: No Prior Approval Required

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Notification for Prior Approval for the installation of 20 roof mounted Solar PV panels with 8.100 kWp capacity

Received
13 November 2023
Ward
Edgbaston
  1. Received13 Nov
  2. Validated15 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 Dec

Decided in 27 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at 5 - 6 Greenfield Crescent Birmingham B15 3BE. Birmingham has handled 2,571 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 4 weeks quicker than Birmingham's typical decision time. The site is in the Edgbaston conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across Edgbaston. We hold 1,132 applications in total for the B15 postcode area.

86% of outline applications at Birmingham City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
B15 3BE
Application type
Permitted Development Commercial from May 2013
Scale / size
Small
District
Edgbaston

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 November 2023
Application expires
5 January 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
51 days

Additional information

Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Edgbaston Conservation AreaPart of the site
  • Article 4 direction: City Wide Hmo
  • Brownfield land register: 16 to 22 Harborne Road, EdgbastonRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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 and heritage coasts.

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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