Firbeck Academy Firbeck Road Nottingham Nottingham City NG8 2FB
Approved on 8 December 2025
Council decision: Prior approval not requiredDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Proposed roof mounted solar panels
- Received
- 17 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Nottingham City Council
- Ward
- Bilborough (May 2019)
- Agent
- Luke Strange Architecture Ltd
- ReceivedReceived17 Oct
- ValidatedValidated17 Oct
- Consult.Consultation27 Nov
- TargetTarget Date12 Dec
- DecidedDecided8 Dec
Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Firbeck Academy Firbeck Road Nottingham Nottingham City NG8 2FB. Nottingham has handled 173 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 4 days quicker than Nottingham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Bilborough (May 2019). We hold 1,219 applications in total for the NG8 postcode area.
94% of outline applications at Nottingham City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- NG8 2FB
- Application type
- Prior Approval of Solar Panels
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 27 November 2025
- Last date for comments
- 27 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 12 December 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Luke Strange Architecture Ltd
- Agent address
- 20 Hollicondane Road Ramsgate CT11 7PH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 6 November 2025
- Site notice end
- 27 November 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14417853
- Documents
- 4
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
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.
Also checked, none recorded (22)
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Nottingham
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