Colman Infant School Colman Road Norwich NR4 7AW
Approved on 22 October 2025
Council decision: Prior Approval ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Proposed roof mounted solar panels.
- Received
- 22 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Norwich City Council
- Ward
- Eaton
- Agent
- Luke Strange Architecture Ltd
- ReceivedReceived22 Sep
- ValidatedValidated22 Sep
- Consult.Consultation21 Oct
- TargetTarget Date16 Nov
- DecidedDecided22 Oct
Decided in 30 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Colman Infant School Colman Road Norwich NR4 7AW. Norwich has handled 50 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 4 weeks quicker than Norwich'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 116 applications across Eaton. We hold 783 applications in total for the NR4 postcode area.
94% of outline applications at Norwich City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- NR4 7AW
- Application type
- Prior Approval
- Scale / size
- Small
- District
- LLC-984DD
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 22 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 21 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 21 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 16 November 2025
- Decision issued
- 31 October 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Luke Strange Architecture Ltd
- Agent address
- 20 Hollicondane Road Ramsgate CT11 7PH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 30 September 2025
- Site notice end
- 21 October 2025
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Unthank and ChristchurchNext to the site
- Nutrient neutrality catchment: Yare Broads and MarshesApplies to new homes and overnight accommodation
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: 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, 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.
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Source: Norwich
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