Hays Cottage Old Hill Winford North Somerset BS40 8DY

23/P/1696/LDPs192 Lawful use/development-proposedApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 26 October 2023

Council decision: Approve (Lawful)Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Certificate of lawful development for the proposed installation of solar panels to side roof elevations of the property.

Received: 8 August 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments: 1
Council: North Somerset
Ward: Winford
Agent: FirstFox Architecture Limited

ReceivedReceived8 Aug
ValidatedValidated22 Aug
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided26 Oct

Decided in 65 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Hays Cottage Old Hill Winford North Somerset BS40 8DY. North Somerset has handled 683 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 3 weeks longer than North Somerset's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 88 applications across Winford. We hold 2,267 applications in total for the BS40 postcode area.

73% of outline applications at North Somerset were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: BS40 8DY
Application type: s192 Lawful use/development-proposed
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Winford

Planning application dates

Date validated: 22 August 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent: FirstFox Architecture Limited
Agent address: 38A Fir Tree Lane St George Bristol BS5 8TZ

Additional information

Documents: 9

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Green belt: North Somerset
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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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Source: North Somerset

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