Soars Lodge Farm Foston Lane Foston Leicestershire LE8 5WP
Approved on 9 November 2022
Council decision: EIA Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Opinion relating to a 57 hectare 49.9MW solar farm
- Received
- 7 October 2022
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 8
- Council
- Blaby District Council
- Ward
- Countesthorpe
- ReceivedReceived7 Oct
- ValidatedValidated7 Oct
- Consult.Consultation24 Oct
- TargetTarget Date28 Oct
- DecidedDecided9 Nov
Decided in 33 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Soars Lodge Farm Foston Lane Foston Leicestershire LE8 5WP. Blaby has handled 160 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 3 weeks quicker than Blaby's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Countesthorpe. We hold 1,735 applications in total for the LE8 postcode area.
94% of outline applications at Blaby District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- LE8 5WP
- Application type
- EIA Screening Opinion
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Kilby Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 7 October 2022
- Consultation expiry
- 24 October 2022
- Consultation start
- 10 October 2022
- Consultation end
- 24 October 2022
- Last date for comments
- 24 October 2022
- Target decision date
- 28 October 2022
- Permission expires
- 9 November 2027
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Architect profile
- PEGASUS PLANNING GROUP LIMITED
- Agent address
- 5 The Priory Old London Road Canwell Sutton Coldfield B75 5SH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 21 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
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.
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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