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Gates Nurseries And Garden Centre, Lakeland Somerby Road Cold Overton Leicestershire LE15 7QB

26/00525/GDOPVAwaiting decision
Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Installation of 772 roof-mounted solar PV panels on existing buildings plus associated works. Associated works include the installation of inverters, electrical cabling, isolators, metering equipment and ancillary electrical infrastructure.

Submitted
11 June 2026
  1. Received11 Jun
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided

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About this application

This is a planning application for a solar installation at Gates Nurseries And Garden Centre, Lakeland Somerby Road Cold Overton Leicestershire LE15 7QB. Melton has handled 2,308 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 11 June 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 3,189 applications in total for the LE15 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
LE15 7QB

Site constraints

Checking the site
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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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