Norwich Community Hospital Bowthorpe Road Norwich NR2 3TU
Approved on 19 March 2026
Council decision: Prior Approval ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Roof mounted solar panels.
- Received
- 8 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Norwich City Council
- Ward
- Nelson
- ReceivedReceived8 Jan
- ValidatedValidated3 Feb
- Consult.Consultation9 Mar
- TargetTarget Date30 Mar
- DecidedDecided19 Mar
Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Norwich Community Hospital Bowthorpe Road Norwich NR2 3TU. Norwich has handled 50 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than Norwich's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 62 applications across Nelson. We hold 395 applications in total for the NR2 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
- NR2 3TU
- Application type
- Prior Approval
- Scale / size
- Small
- District
- LLC-BHJP0
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 9 March 2026
- Last date for comments
- 9 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 30 March 2026
- Decision issued
- 26 March 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 55 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 16 February 2026
- Site notice end
- 9 March 2026
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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 (21)
flood storage areas, conservation 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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© 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202613 Aug
G0215 Mixed Species - Crown lift to 2.4m for pedestrian clearance. Crown lift to 5.2 m for highway clearance…
ApprovedApplication26/00810/TPO - 202410 May
Demolition of boiler House, workshop, chemical Store, external Tanks, generators, microbiology block, garage…
ApprovedDemolition Prior Approval24/00552/DEM
Source: Norwich
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