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Land To The West Of The A507 Between Cottered And Cromer Hertfordshire SG9 9PU

3/23/2478/SCREENScreening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 2 February 2024

Council decision: EIA Not Required

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Screening Opinion for the construction and operation of a solar farm with a capacity of 49.9MW with associated ancillary development

Received
21 December 2023
Public comments
172
Ward
Buntingford
  1. Received21 Dec
  2. Validated21 Dec
  3. Consult.18 Jan
  4. Target25 Jan
  5. Decided2 Feb

Decided in 43 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Land To The West Of The A507 Between Cottered And Cromer Hertfordshire SG9 9PU. East Hertfordshire has handled 1,009 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 3 weeks quicker than East Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Cottered conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 148 applications across Buntingford. We hold 1,660 applications in total for the SG9 postcode area.

79% of outline applications at East Hertfordshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SG9 9PU
Application type
Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Cottered Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 December 2023
Last date for comments
18 January 2024
Target decision date
25 January 2024

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
.
Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Documents
182

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, 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

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© 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.

Source: East Hertfordshire

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