Canwick Sewage Treatment Works, Washingborough Road, Lincoln
Approved on 15 November 2023
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
To install a ground mounted solar array and associated infrastructure on land adjacent to Canwick Water Recycling Centre
- Submitted
- 16 August 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Lincolnshire County Council
- Ward
- Park
- ReceivedSubmitted16 Aug
- ValidatedValidated16 Aug
- Consult.Consultation19 Oct
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided15 Nov
Decided in 91 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is a planning application for a solar installation at Canwick Sewage Treatment Works, Washingborough Road, Lincoln. Lincolnshire has handled 209 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 7 weeks longer than Lincolnshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Cathedral and City Centre conservation area, with 14 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,445 applications in total for the LN2 postcode area.
93% of all applications at Lincolnshire County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- LN2 1DA
- Application type
- County Matter Waste Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- LINCOLN
- District
- Lincoln City Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 16 August 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 19 October 2023
- Consultation end
- 19 October 2023
Additional information
- Documents
- 30
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Cathedral and City Centre
- 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.
Possibly incomplete for this council: brownfield registers.
Also checked, none recorded (18)
flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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.
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Source: Lincolnshire
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