Melton Vale Post 16 Centre Burton Road Melton Mowbray Leicestershire LE13 1DN
Approved on 27 November 2025
Council decision: General Development Order ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Proposed roof mounted solar panels
- Received
- 5 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- Melton Borough Council
- Ward
- Melton Craven
- Agent
- Luke Strange Architecture Ltd
- ReceivedReceived5 Oct
- ValidatedValidated5 Oct
- Consult.Consultation29 Oct
- TargetTarget Date30 Nov
- DecidedDecided27 Nov
Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Melton Vale Post 16 Centre Burton Road Melton Mowbray Leicestershire LE13 1DN. Melton has handled 157 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Melton's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 6 applications across Melton Craven. We hold 146 applications in total for the LE13 postcode area.
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
- Postcode
- LE13 1DN
- Application type
- Prior Notification for non domestic PV
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Melton Craven Ward
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 29 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 8 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 29 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 8 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 29 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 29 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 30 November 2025
- Permission expires
- 27 November 2030
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Luke Strange Architecture Ltd
- Agent address
- 20 Hollicondane Road Ramsgate CT11 7PH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14384192
- Documents
- 8
- Constraints
- 3
Site constraints
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.
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.
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