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Land At Sawgate Road Sawgate Road Burton Lazars

26/00210/EIAEIA Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 1 April 2026

Council decision: EIA Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Request for a Screening Opinion under Regulation 6 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 for a proposed solar farm, substation and associated ancillary infrastructure.

Received
12 March 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wymondham
  1. Received12 Mar
  2. Validated12 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target2 Apr
  5. Decided1 Apr

Decided in 20 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Land At Sawgate Road Sawgate Road Burton Lazars. Melton has handled 157 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 5 weeks quicker than Melton's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Wymondham. We hold 1,372 applications in total for the LE14 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
LE14 2UB
Application type
EIA Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Freeby

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 March 2026
Target decision date
2 April 2026
Permission expires
1 April 2031

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
13
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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: Melton

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