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Norfolk House Stafford Lane Sheffield S2 5HR

25/00406/PVPNSolar/PV panel Prior NotificationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 12 March 2025

Council decision: Grant Conditionally Prior NotificationDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Installation of 30 photovoltaic panels to flat roof of building

Received
12 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Manor Castle
  1. Received12 Feb
  2. Validated12 Feb
  3. Consult.5 Mar
  4. Target9 Apr
  5. Decided12 Mar

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Norfolk House Stafford Lane Sheffield S2 5HR. Sheffield has handled 579 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 4 weeks quicker than Sheffield's typical decision time. The site is in the Norfolk Road conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Manor Castle. We hold 492 applications in total for the S2 postcode area.

84% of outline applications at Sheffield City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
S2 5HR
Application type
Solar/PV panel Prior Notification
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 February 2025
Consultation expiry
11 March 2025
Consultation start
12 February 2025
Consultation end
5 March 2025
Last date for comments
11 March 2025
Target decision date
9 April 2025
Permission expires
12 March 2030

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
14 February 2025
Site notice end
11 March 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13772364
Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Norfolk Road
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage 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 and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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