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Great Barn Farm Old Norwich Road Gayton Thorpe Norfolk PE32 1PN

12/00249/FFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 17 April 2012

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Ground mounted installation of 50kW photovoltaic system which will generate electricity to be used on site with any excess exported to the National Grid.

Received
17 February 2012
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Gayton
  1. Received17 Feb
  2. Validated21 Feb
  3. Consult.16 Mar
  4. Target17 Apr
  5. Decided17 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a solar installation at Great Barn Farm Old Norwich Road Gayton Thorpe Norfolk PE32 1PN. Kings Lynn has handled 4,002 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 11 days longer than Kings Lynn's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,151 applications in total for the PE32 postcode area.

90% of full applications at King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
PE32 1PN
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Gayton

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 February 2012
Consultation expiry
23 March 2012
Consultation start
24 February 2012
Consultation end
16 March 2012
Last date for comments
23 March 2012
Target decision date
17 April 2012
Permission expires
17 April 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Miss Kate Noble RenEnergy Limited Woodbastwick Road Blofield Blofield Heath Norwich Norfolk NR13 4RR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
2 March 2012
Site notice end
23 March 2012

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-01813934
Documents
22

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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.

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