Drax Power Station New Road Drax Selby North Yorkshire YO8 8PQ
Approved on 19 June 2020
Council decision: EIA Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
EIA screening request for a battery based energy storage facility adjacent to the existing Drax Power Station
- Received
- 1 June 2020
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Selby
- Ward
- Camblesforth And Carlton
- Agent
- LDA Design
- ReceivedReceived1 Jun
- ValidatedValidated1 Jun
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date22 Jun
- DecidedDecided19 Jun
Decided in 18 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Drax Power Station New Road Drax Selby North Yorkshire YO8 8PQ. Selby has handled 341 applications of this type. This one was decided in 18 days, 5 weeks quicker than Selby's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Camblesforth And Carlton. We hold 2,343 applications in total for the YO8 postcode area.
78% of outline applications at Selby were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- YO8 8PQ
- Application type
- Screening Option
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Long Drax Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 June 2020
- Target decision date
- 22 June 2020
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- LDA Design
- Agent address
- LDA Design Studio 4B 36 King Street Bristol BS1 4DZ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 21 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
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)
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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20114 May
To develop additional biomass handling and storage facilities at Drax Power Station Site.
ApprovedScreening OpinionSCR/2011/0007 - 200813 Jun
Application to discharge condition 2(vi) and condition 4 of planning approval 2007/1420/FUL
Condition decisionDischarge of conditions2008/0774/DPC - 200813 Jun
Application to discharge condition 2 part i - v of planning approval 2007/1420/FUL
Condition decisionDischarge of conditions2008/0775/DPC
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