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Tesco Extra Battlefield Road Shrewsbury Shropshire SY1 4AB

19/05442/PSPPAPrior Approval of Solar PV Non DomesticApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 5 March 2020

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for prior approval under Part 14, Class J of the Town & Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 for the installation of roof mounted solar panels

Received
17 December 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Battlefield
  1. Received17 Dec
  2. Validated17 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target11 Feb
  5. Decided5 Mar

Decided in 79 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Tesco Extra Battlefield Road Shrewsbury Shropshire SY1 4AB. Shropshire has handled 1,171 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 5 weeks longer than Shropshire's typical decision time. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 2 applications across Battlefield. We hold 1,626 applications in total for the SY1 postcode area.

83% of outline applications at Shropshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SY1 4AB
Application type
Prior Approval of Solar PV Non Domestic
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shrewsbury Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 December 2019
Consultation expiry
10 January 2020
Target decision date
11 February 2020
Permission expires
5 March 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
20 December 2019
Site notice end
10 January 2020

Additional information

Documents
6

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)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

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.

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

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© 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.

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Source: Shropshire

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