Awre Saltmarsh Habitat Restoration Project
Approved on 27 March 2025
Council decision: EIA Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Request for EIA screening opinion - proposed WWT project to restore/create of up to 148 hectares of saltmarsh at the Awre peninsula
- Received
- 14 February 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 5
- Ward
- Newnham
- ReceivedReceived14 Feb
- ValidatedValidated14 Feb
- Consult.Consultation25 Mar
- TargetTarget Date7 Mar
- DecidedDecided27 Mar
Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Awre Saltmarsh Habitat Restoration Project. Forest of Dean has handled 596 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than Forest of Dean's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Newnham.
79% of outline applications at Forest of Dean District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Application type
- EIA Screening Opinion
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Awre
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 14 February 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 25 March 2025
- Consultation start
- 21 February 2025
- Consultation end
- 25 March 2025
- Last date for comments
- 3 March 2025
- Target decision date
- 7 March 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 21 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 11
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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.
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