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Cranborne County Middle School Cranborne Wimborne BH21 5RP

P/PASO/2025/00657Prior Approval - Roof Mounted Solar PV on a Non Domestic BuildingApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 7 March 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Increase amount of solar PV on the roofs of school, to increase capacity to 168 kWp by adding a further 90 kWp spread across 8 further roofs.

Submitted
5 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cranborne and Alderholt Ward
  1. Received5 Feb
  2. Validated5 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided7 Mar

Decided in 30 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Cranborne County Middle School Cranborne Wimborne BH21 5RP. Dorset has handled 1,884 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 12 days quicker than Dorset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across Cranborne and Alderholt Ward. We hold 2,298 applications in total for the BH21 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
BH21 5RP
Application type
Prior Approval - Roof Mounted Solar PV on a Non Domestic Building
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cranborne

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
County Hall Colliton Park Dorchester Dorset DT1 1XJ

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs
  • 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, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

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