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David Lloyd Leisure Stanhope Grove Beckenham BR3 3HL

23/02807/SOLARSOLAR PV ON ROOF OF NON DOMESTICApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 25 August 2023

Council decision: Grant Prior ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of Photovoltaic Array to roofs of David Lloyd Leisure Centre consisting of 495.5 kWp installation, made up of 991 x 500W PV panels. (56 DAY APPLICATION UNDER CLASS J, PART 14, SCHEDULE 2 OF THE GENERAL PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT ORDER TO DETERMINE WHETHER PRIOR APPROVAL IS REQUIRED IN RELATION TO THE DESIGN AND EXTERNAL APPEARANCE OF SOLAR EQUIPMENT ON NON-DOMESTIC PREMISES).

Received
20 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Kelsey And Eden Park
Agent
Custom Solar Ltd
  1. Received20 Jul
  2. Validated20 Jul
  3. Consult.14 Aug
  4. Target14 Sep
  5. Decided25 Aug

Decided in 36 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a solar installation at David Lloyd Leisure Stanhope Grove Beckenham BR3 3HL. Bromley has handled 18,666 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 3 weeks quicker than Bromley's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,249 applications in total for the BR3 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
BR3 3HL
Application type
SOLAR PV ON ROOF OF NON DOMESTIC
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 July 2023
Consultation expiry
15 August 2023
Consultation start
24 July 2023
Consultation end
14 August 2023
Neighbour consultation start
24 July 2023
Neighbour consultation end
14 August 2023
Last date for comments
15 August 2023
Target decision date
14 September 2023
Permission expires
25 August 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Custom Solar Ltd
Agent address
Sunbeam House Broombank Road Chesterfield S41 9QJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
25 July 2023
Site notice end
15 August 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12317622
Documents
10
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

Source: Bromley

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