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Land Adjacent Pinden Quarry Green Street Green Road Longfield Kent

24/01366/SCREENScreening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 8 January 2025

Council decision: EIA Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Request for screening opinion for solar farm with ground mounted fixed Solar Photovoltaic (PV) system capacity of up to 6.7 MW, an electrical sub-station compound including a sub-station and associated infrastructure

Received
27 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Longfield, New Barn & Southfleet
  1. Received27 Nov
  2. Validated27 Nov
  3. Consult.23 Dec
  4. Target10 Jan
  5. Decided8 Jan

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Land Adjacent Pinden Quarry Green Street Green Road Longfield Kent. Dartford has handled 71 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than Dartford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 124 applications across Longfield, New Barn & Southfleet.

83% of outline applications at Dartford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Longfield And New Barn

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 November 2024
Consultation expiry
23 December 2024
Consultation start
2 December 2024
Consultation end
23 December 2024
Last date for comments
23 December 2024
Target decision date
10 January 2025
Permission expires
8 January 2030

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
20 Western Avenue Milton Park Abingdon Oxfordshire OX14 4SH

Planning decision

Case officer
Steven Bell
Statutory period
44 days

Additional information

Documents
2
Constraints
30

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Grade II: Rats CastleOn or next to this site
  • Tree Preservation Order: 89/00010/TPOPart of the site
  • Green belt: Dartford
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, Article 4 directions, 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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