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Rew Farm Sweetshouse Bodmin Cornwall PL30 5AW

PA16/12133Application under Section 73 of TCP ActApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 24 March 2017

Council decision: Approved with conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Variation of condition 11 in respect of decision notice PA12/08097 and appeal ref APP/D/840/A/12/2188929 to extend the operational period of the solar farm by 5 years by extending the planning permission term from 25.5 to 30.5 years from the date of commissioning the solar farm

Received
23 December 2016
Public comments
9
Ward
Lostwithiel
Agent
Lightsource Renewable Energy Ltd - Richard Jenkins
  1. Received23 Dec
  2. Validated23 Dec
  3. Consult.1 Feb
  4. Target24 Mar
  5. Decided24 Mar

Decided in 91 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Rew Farm Sweetshouse Bodmin Cornwall PL30 5AW. Cornwall has handled 3,840 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 6 weeks longer than Cornwall's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. We hold 1,633 applications in total for the PL30 postcode area.

93% of amendment applications at Cornwall Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
PL30 5AW
Application type
Application under Section 73 of TCP Act
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Lanlivery

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 December 2016
Consultation expiry
1 February 2017
Neighbour consultation start
11 January 2017
Neighbour consultation end
1 February 2017
Target decision date
24 March 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent
Lightsource Renewable Energy Ltd - Richard Jenkins
Agent address
7th Floor 33 Holborn London EC1N 2HU

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
20 January 2017

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-05718254
Documents
8
Constraints
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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.

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