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Inkersall Primary Academy Inkersall Green Road Inkersall Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3SE

CHE/26/00087/SOLPANPrior Approval for Solar PanelsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 24 March 2026

Council decision: Conditional permissionDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Installation of solar panels on the school roofs

Received
5 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Staveley South
  1. Received5 Feb
  2. Validated5 Feb
  3. Consult.8 Mar
  4. Target2 Apr
  5. Decided24 Mar

Decided in 47 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Inkersall Primary Academy Inkersall Green Road Inkersall Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3SE. Chesterfield has handled 330 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days, 2 weeks quicker than Chesterfield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 45 applications across Staveley South. We hold 1,226 applications in total for the S43 postcode area.

91% of outline applications at Chesterfield Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
S43 3SE
Application type
Prior Approval for Solar Panels
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Staveley Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 February 2026
Consultation expiry
8 March 2026
Neighbour consultation end
8 March 2026
Last date for comments
8 March 2026
Target decision date
2 April 2026
Permission expires
24 March 2031

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
11

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: conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

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.

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: Chesterfield

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