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Compton House, Old Portsmouth Road, Artington, Guildford

23/W/00029Renewable EnergyApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 31 May 2023

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior notification under Schedule 2, Part 14, Class J of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended) to determine if prior approval is required for installation of photovoltaic panels on to existing pitched roof (as amended by additional roof section plan received 30/05/23).

Received
21 April 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Shalford
Agent
NW Architects
  1. Received21 Apr
  2. Validated21 Apr
  3. Consult.20 May
  4. Target15 Jun
  5. Decided31 May

Decided in 40 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a solar installation at Compton House, Old Portsmouth Road, Artington, Guildford. Guildford has handled 7,095 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 3 weeks quicker than Guildford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 139 applications across Shalford.

Application details

Application type
Renewable Energy
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Artington

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 April 2023
Consultation expiry
20 May 2023
Consultation start
28 April 2023
Consultation end
20 May 2023
Neighbour consultation end
20 May 2023
Last date for comments
15 June 2023
Target decision date
15 June 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
NW Architects
Architect profile
NW ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
27 York Place, Leeds, LS1 2EY

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
20 May 2023
Site notice start
3 May 2023
Site notice end
20 May 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12105818
Comments
0
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Guildford
  • National Landscape (AONB): Surrey Hills
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

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