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Land West And Northwest Of Pennymoor Pit Farm Fern Hill East Stour

P/ESP/2025/01621EIA Scoping OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 April 2025

Council decision: Scoping opinion adopted

Proposal

Request for EIA Scoping Opinion under Paragraph 15 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 relating to the proposed installation of a solar array with up to 49.9 MW capacity, 53 MW battery energy storage system (BESS), associated infrastructure and ancillary works.

Submitted
17 March 2025
Ward
Gillingham Ward
  1. Received17 Mar
  2. Validated17 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Apr

Decided in 36 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Land West And Northwest Of Pennymoor Pit Farm Fern Hill East Stour. Dorset has handled 1,884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 6 days quicker than Dorset's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 100 applications across Gillingham Ward.

84% of outline applications at Dorset Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
EIA Scoping Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
East Stour

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 March 2025

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.

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