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Former Landfill Tip Maesbury Road Oswestry Shropshire

23/03604/SCREIA Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 14 September 2023

Council decision: EIA not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Opinion as per Part 2 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) 2017 for proposed Solar Farm.

Received
16 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
9
Ward
Oswestry East
  1. Received16 Aug
  2. Validated16 Aug
  3. Consult.6 Sep
  4. Target13 Sep
  5. Decided14 Sep

Decided in 29 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Former Landfill Tip Maesbury Road Oswestry Shropshire. Shropshire has handled 1,171 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 13 days quicker than Shropshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

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

Application type
EIA Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Oswestry Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 August 2023
Consultation expiry
6 September 2023
Consultation end
6 September 2023
Target decision date
13 September 2023
Permission expires
14 September 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, 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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© 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.

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Source: Shropshire

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