Woolley Wood School Chaucer Road Sheffield S5 9QN

26/00361/PVPNSolar/PV panel Prior NotificationApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 30 March 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Installation of Solar Photovoltaics (PV) panels to roof of buildings

Received: 9 February 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Sheffield City Council
Ward: Southey

ReceivedReceived9 Feb
ValidatedValidated20 Feb
Consult.Consultation29 Mar
TargetTarget Date17 Apr
DecidedDecided30 Mar

Decided in 38 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Woolley Wood School Chaucer Road Sheffield S5 9QN. Sheffield has handled 579 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Sheffield's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 4 applications across Southey. We hold 506 applications in total for the S5 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: S5 9QN
Application type: Solar/PV panel Prior Notification
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 20 February 2026
Consultation expiry: 29 March 2026
Last date for comments: 29 March 2026
Target decision date: 17 April 2026
Permission expires: 30 March 2031

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Site notice start: 4 March 2026
Site notice end: 29 March 2026

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 11

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, 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.

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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.

Source: Sheffield

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