45 New Street Wem Shrewsbury Shropshire SY4 5AE
Refused on 4 March 2024
Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Installation of 12no Solar Panels, 6 of which will be on the rear facing roof and 6 will have to be on the front facing roof, facing the street.
- Received
- 30 January 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- Shropshire Council
- Ward
- Wem
- ReceivedReceived30 Jan
- ValidatedValidated30 Jan
- Consult.Consultation20 Feb
- TargetTarget Date26 Mar
- DecidedDecided4 Mar
Decided in 34 days (council typically 42)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a solar installation at 45 New Street Wem Shrewsbury Shropshire SY4 5AE. Shropshire has handled 6,026 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 8 days quicker than Shropshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Wem conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 8 applications across Wem. We hold 1,721 applications in total for the SY4 postcode area.
87% of full 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
- SY4 5AE
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wem Urban
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 30 January 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 27 February 2024
- Consultation end
- 20 February 2024
- Target decision date
- 26 March 2024
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 27 February 2024
- Site notice start
- 1 February 2024
- Site notice end
- 22 February 2024
Appeal history
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-12212220
- Documents
- 6
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Wem
- 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 (21)
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, 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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Source: Shropshire
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