The Stable Yard Knaptoft House Farm Bruntingthorpe Road Knaptoft Leicestershire LE17 6PR

26/00176/SCREIA Screening OpinionApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 20 February 2026

Council decision: EIA Screening IssuedDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Request for Screening Opinion in accordance with Regulation 6 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended) for the proposed installation and operation of a ground mounted solar farm with all associated works, equipment and infrastructure

Received: 27 January 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Harborough District Council
Ward: Fleckney

ReceivedReceived27 Jan
ValidatedValidated27 Jan
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided20 Feb

Decided in 24 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at The Stable Yard Knaptoft House Farm Bruntingthorpe Road Knaptoft Leicestershire LE17 6PR. Harborough has handled 676 applications of this type. This one was decided in 24 days, 5 weeks quicker than Harborough's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 10 applications across Fleckney. We hold 1,701 applications in total for the LE17 postcode area.

85% of outline applications at Harborough District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: LE17 6PR
Application type: EIA Screening Opinion
Scale / size: Medium
Parish: Knaptoft

Planning application dates

Date validated: 27 January 2026

Additional information

Documents: 5

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Harborough

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