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Mountsorrel Quarry, Wood Lane, Quorn, Loughborough, LE12 8GE

2025/PN/0171/LCCOutlineApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 7 January 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Not Required

Proposal

proposed installation of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on non-domestic buildings

Received
1 December 2025
  1. Received1 Dec
  2. Validated1 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided7 Jan

Decided in 37 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Mountsorrel Quarry, Wood Lane, Quorn, Loughborough, LE12 8GE. Leicestershire has handled 15 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 5 days quicker than Leicestershire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,744 applications in total for the LE12 postcode area.

99% of all applications at Leicestershire County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LE12 8GE
Application type
Outline
Scale / size
Small
District
2025/

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
1 Tennyson Street Swindon SN1 5DT

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage 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 and heritage coasts.

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.

© 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: Leicestershire

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