Kidsgrove Waste Water Treatment Works, Liverpool Road East, Church Lawton, ST7 3AH
Approved on 25 May 2016
Council decision: Not decided
Proposal
Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Opinion in respect of a proposed installation of a ground mounted solar array development to provide renewable electricity to the existing operational wastewater treatment works on behalf of United Utilities.
- Submitted
- 11 May 2016
- Council
- Cheshire East Council
- Ward
- Odd Rode 0511
- ReceivedSubmitted11 May
- ValidatedValidated11 May
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date31 May
- DecidedDecided25 May
Decided in 14 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Kidsgrove Waste Water Treatment Works, Liverpool Road East, Church Lawton, ST7 3AH. Cheshire East has handled 1,224 applications of this type. This one was decided in 14 days, 6 weeks quicker than Cheshire East's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,086 applications in total for the ST7 postcode area.
79% of outline applications at Cheshire East Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- ST7 3AH
- Application type
- EIA
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Church Lawton PC
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 May 2016
- Target decision date
- 31 May 2016
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Wessex House, Priors Walk, East Borough, Wimbourne, BH21 1PB
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 20 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 1
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Green belt: Cheshire East
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (20)
flood storage 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Cheshire East
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