Co-op Food The Ridgeway Plympton Plymouth PL7 2AW
Approved on 5 June 2025
Council decision: Prior Approval Required & GivenDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Roof-top installation of 272 x 500Wp PV panels.
- Received
- 16 April 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Plymouth City Council
- Ward
- PLYMPTON ERLE
- ReceivedReceived16 Apr
- ValidatedValidated22 Apr
- Consult.Consultation21 May
- TargetTarget Date17 Jun
- DecidedDecided5 Jun
Decided in 44 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application at Co-op Food The Ridgeway Plympton Plymouth PL7 2AW. Plymouth has handled 203 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across PLYMPTON ERLE. We hold 369 applications in total for the PL7 postcode area.
95% of outline applications at Plymouth City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- PL7 2AW
- Application type
- GPD All others
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 22 April 2025
- Last date for comments
- 21 May 2025
- Target decision date
- 17 June 2025
- Permission expires
- 5 June 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Custom Solar
- Agent address
- Sunbeam House Broombank Road Chesterfield S41 9QJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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 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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