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Hall Farm Wymondham Road Garthorpe

23/00546/GDOPVPrior Notification for non domestic PVApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 16 August 2023

Council decision: General Development Order ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Installation of 2 solar PV arrays.

Received
9 June 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wymondham
Agent
NerG Ltd
  1. Received9 Jun
  2. Validated26 Jun
  3. Consult.14 Aug
  4. Target21 Aug
  5. Decided16 Aug

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Hall Farm Wymondham Road Garthorpe. Melton has handled 157 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days longer than Melton's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Wymondham.

90% of outline applications at Melton Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Prior Notification for non domestic PV
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Garthorpe And Coston

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 June 2023
Consultation expiry
14 August 2023
Last date for comments
14 August 2023
Target decision date
21 August 2023
Permission expires
16 August 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
NerG Ltd
Agent address
Willow Tree Farm 32 Water Lane Bassingham LINCOLN LN5 9LA United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
24 July 2023
Site notice end
14 August 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12225616
Comments
0
Documents
6

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 and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, 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.

© 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.

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