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Lyme Regis Marine Centre Monmouth Beach Lyme Regis DT7 3JN

P/PASO/2024/02269Prior Approval - Roof Mounted Solar PV on a Non Domestic BuildingApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 23 May 2024

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of 40 Photovoltaic Panels on the front, south facing, pitched roof of two storey, Boat Building Academy

Submitted
24 April 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lyme and Charmouth Ward
  1. Received24 Apr
  2. Validated24 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 May

Decided in 29 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Lyme Regis Marine Centre Monmouth Beach Lyme Regis DT7 3JN. Dorset has handled 1,884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 13 days quicker than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 65 applications across Lyme and Charmouth Ward. We hold 746 applications in total for the DT7 postcode area.

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

Postcode
DT7 3JN
Application type
Prior Approval - Roof Mounted Solar PV on a Non Domestic Building
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lyme Regis

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 April 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Wayfield House Venlake Lane Uplyme Lyme Regis DT7 3SA

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • World Heritage Site: Dorset and East Devon CoastPart of the site
  • National Landscape (AONB): Dorset
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, 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.

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