Unit 2, Stargate Business Park Cuckoo Road Birmingham B7 5SE
Approved on 4 February 2026
Council decision: No Prior Approval Required
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Proposal
Notification for Prior Approval for the installation of 336 roof mounted Solar PV solar panels with 154.56 kWp capacity
- Received
- 6 January 2026
- Council
- Birmingham City Council
- Ward
- Nechells
- ReceivedReceived6 Jan
- ValidatedValidated6 Jan
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided4 Feb
Decided in 29 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Unit 2, Stargate Business Park Cuckoo Road Birmingham B7 5SE. 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. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 54 applications across Nechells. We hold 57 applications in total for the B7 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
- B7 5SE
- Application type
- Permitted Development Commercial from May 2013
- Scale / size
- Small
- District
- Ladywood
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 January 2026
- Application expires
- 2 March 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Article 4 direction: City Wide Hmo
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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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