Whitelee Farm, Byrness Village, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE19 1TJ

14NP0023OtherApproved

Approved on 4 April 2014

Council decision: Planning permission granted conditionally

Proposal

56 ground mounted photovoltaic solar panels to generate electricity (1 array of 40 panels and one array of 16 panels)

Received: 19 February 2014
Council: Northumberland (Park)
Ward: Bellingham ED

ReceivedReceived19 Feb
ValidatedValidated5 Mar
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided4 Apr

Decided in 30 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application for a solar installation at Whitelee Farm, Byrness Village, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE19 1TJ. Northumberland (Park) has handled 12 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 12 days quicker than Northumberland (Park)'s typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 15 applications across Bellingham ED. We hold 142 applications in total for the NE19 postcode area.

94% of all applications at Northumberland (Park) were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: NE19 1TJ
Application type: Other
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Rochester & Byrness CP
District: Northumberland County Council - West Area

Planning application dates

Date validated: 5 March 2014

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 22 Allen View Catton Hexham Northumberland NE47 9QQ

Additional information

Documents: 9

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

National park: Northumberland
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas and Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

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 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: Northumberland (Park)

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