Lipson Community College Bernice Terrace Plymouth PL4 7PG
Approved on 4 December 2025
Council decision: Prior Approval Required & GivenDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Installation of roof mounted Solar PV panels
- Received
- 3 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Plymouth City Council
- Ward
- EFFORD AND LIPSON
- Agent
- Barker Associates
- ReceivedReceived3 Oct
- ValidatedValidated14 Oct
- Consult.Consultation12 Nov
- TargetTarget Date9 Dec
- DecidedDecided4 Dec
Decided in 51 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Lipson Community College Bernice Terrace Plymouth PL4 7PG. Plymouth has handled 203 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 13 days longer than Plymouth'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 22 applications across EFFORD AND LIPSON. We hold 268 applications in total for the PL4 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
- PL4 7PG
- Application type
- GPD All others
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 14 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 12 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 9 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 4 December 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Barker Associates
- Agent address
- Majesty House Skyline, 120 Avenue West Great Notley Braintree CM77 7AA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Article 4 direction: HMOs Mutley, Greenbank, City Centre and surrounding areas
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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