Shore Top Farm, Kearsley Road, Radcliffe, Manchester, M26 1FA
Approved on 20 November 2025
Council decision: Approve with ConditionsPlanning committee
Proposal
Construction, operation and decommissioning of a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) facility and associated infrastructure
- Received
- 28 April 2025
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 16
- Ward
- Radcliffe - West
- Agent
- GP Planning Ltd
- ReceivedReceived28 Apr
- ValidatedValidated22 May
- Consult.Consultation20 Jun
- TargetTarget Date21 Aug
- DecidedDecided20 Nov
Decided in 182 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Shore Top Farm, Kearsley Road, Radcliffe, Manchester, M26 1FA. Bury has handled 1,460 applications of this type. This one was decided in 206 days, 21 weeks longer than Bury's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 27 applications across Radcliffe - West. We hold 178 applications in total for the M26 postcode area.
89% of full applications at Bury Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- M26 1FA
- Application type
- Full
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 22 May 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 20 June 2025
- Consultation start
- 13 June 2025
- Consultation end
- 20 June 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 10 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 20 June 2025
- Last date for comments
- 21 August 2025
- Target decision date
- 21 August 2025
- Committee meeting
- 18 November 2025
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- GP Planning Ltd
- Agent address
- iCon Innovation Centre, Eastern Way, Daventry, NN11 0QB
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Jennie Townsend
- Statutory period
- 91 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 19 June 2025
- Site notice start
- 13 June 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13926223
- Constraints
- 28
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Article 4 direction: Bury borough HMO
- Green belt: Bury
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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
Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
© 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.
© 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: Bury
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