Bentley Heath Church Of England Primary School Widney Close Bentley Heath Solihull B93 9AS
Approved on 16 April 2025
Council decision: Prior Approval Required and GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Prior notification for the installation of roof mounted solar panels.
- Received
- 3 March 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Dorridge And Hockley Heath
- Agent
- Luke Strange Architecture Ltd
- ReceivedReceived3 Mar
- ValidatedValidated3 Mar
- Consult.Consultation9 Apr
- TargetTarget Date28 Apr
- DecidedDecided16 Apr
Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Bentley Heath Church Of England Primary School Widney Close Bentley Heath Solihull B93 9AS. Solihull has handled 567 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 12 days quicker than Solihull's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Dorridge And Hockley Heath. We hold 2,052 applications in total for the B93 postcode area.
75% of outline applications at Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- B93 9AS
- Application type
- Prior Notification Solar Photovoltaics
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Non-Civil Parish Or Community
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 March 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 9 April 2025
- Consultation start
- 12 March 2025
- Consultation end
- 9 April 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 12 March 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 3 April 2025
- Last date for comments
- 9 April 2025
- Target decision date
- 28 April 2025
- Permission expires
- 16 April 2030
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Luke Strange Architecture Ltd
- Agent address
- 20 Hollicondane Road Ramsgate CT11 7PH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 13 March 2025
- Site notice end
- 4 April 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13812197
- Documents
- 9
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas and 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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