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Solar Farm Stokeford Farm A352 East Stoke - Wareham Road East Stoke

P/NMA/2024/07529Non Material AmendmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 12 February 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Non material amendment to planning permission 6/2020/0158 (Variation of conditions 2, 3, 6, 9, 12, 13 & 15 of planning permission 6/2015/0516 (Construction of solar photovoltaic park with ground mounted photovoltaic arrays and ancillary equipment including substations, inverters, fencing and security cameras) to revise the layout and the drainage scheme, and increase the period of operation to 40 years and 6 months.) and subsequent application P/NMA/2021/05733 - to allow minor amendments to the layout of the development including repositioning of solar panels, repositioning of internal access tracks, transformers and internal fence line; and additional spares container. (Amended description)

Submitted
20 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
South East Purbeck Ward
  1. Received20 Dec
  2. Validated20 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 Feb

Decided in 54 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Solar Farm Stokeford Farm A352 East Stoke - Wareham Road East Stoke. Dorset has handled 1,397 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 12 days longer than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 99 applications across South East Purbeck Ward.

76% of amendment 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
Non Material Amendment
Scale / size
Small
Parish
East Stoke

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 December 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Hive 6 Beaufighter Road Weston-super-Mare BS24 8EE

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Nutrient neutrality catchment: Poole Harbour SPA/RamsarApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
  • 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 (22)

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, 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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