Cross Lanes Farm Grotsworth Lane Bickley Malpas Cheshire SY14 8EP
Approved on 12 December 2011
Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Installation of 98 roof-mounted solar photovoltaic panels
- Received
- 28 September 2011
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Malpas
- ReceivedReceived28 Sep
- ValidatedValidated
- Consult.Consultation4 Nov
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided12 Dec
Decided in 75 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a solar installation at Cross Lanes Farm Grotsworth Lane Bickley Malpas Cheshire SY14 8EP. Chester has handled 2,657 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 3 weeks longer than Chester's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across Malpas. We hold 523 applications in total for the SY14 postcode area.
94% of full applications at Cheshire West and Chester Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- SY14 8EP
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Bickley
Planning application dates
- Validated
- 28 September 2011
- Consultation expiry
- 4 November 2011
- Consultation end
- 4 November 2011
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Mr Richard Bayliss Windsor House Windsor Place Shrewsbury SY1 2BY
Additional information
- Documents
- 8
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas and Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage 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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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202517 Sep
Installing 136 530w panels with a 60kW inverter and 36.18kWh of battery storage on an existing barn roof
ApprovedApplication25/02941/P14 - 20233 Feb
Construction of an agricultural building for storage of agricultural machinery and implements
ApprovedOther23/00337/AGR - 20188 May
Erect a general purpose portal frame building
ApprovedAgricultural Determination18/01778/AGR - 20103 Jun
Slurry Store
ApprovedFull Application10/11584/FUL
Source: Chester
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