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Drax Power Station New Road Drax Selby North Yorkshire YO8 8PQ

SCR/2011/0007Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 May 2011

Council decision: EIA Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

To develop additional biomass handling and storage facilities at Drax Power Station Site.

Received
4 May 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Selby
Ward
Camblesforth And Carlton
  1. Received4 May
  2. Validated4 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target25 May
  5. Decided11 May

Decided in 7 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 7 days, 7 weeks quicker than Selby's typical decision time. The site is in the Selby Town conservation area, with 18 listed buildings nearby. 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 Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Long Drax Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 May 2011
Target decision date
25 May 2011
Permission expires
11 May 2016

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Selby Town
  • Listed building: Grade II: Cygnet HouseOn or next to this site · +1 more

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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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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Planning history at this site

7 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2021
    13 Oct

    Change of use from a post office to a sorting hall (retrospective)

    ApprovedChange of Use2021/1276/COU
  2. 2020
    1 Jun

    EIA screening request for a battery based energy storage facility adjacent to the existing Drax Power Station

    ApprovedScreening Option2020/0544/SCN
  3. 2010
    24 Nov

    Change of use from cycle store to additional sorting office and replacement of defective timber sliding doors

    ApprovedChange of Use2010/1225/COU
  4. 2008
    18 Sep

    Discharge of planning condition 5 relating to 2005/1350/FUL

    Condition decisionDischarge of conditions2008/1040/DPC
  5. 2008
    13 Jun

    Application to discharge condition 2(vi) and condition 4 of planning approval 2007/1420/FUL

    Condition decisionDischarge of conditions2008/0774/DPC
  6. 2008
    13 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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