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Berkswell Battery Storage Site Waste Lane Balsall Common Solihull CV7 7GH

PL/2025/01971/DISDischarge of ConditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 8 January 2026

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Discharge of Condition 3 (CEMP) of PL/2024/02848/PPFL dated 10.10.2025 for for Underground cable and ancillary electrical works to connect the battery energy storage system approved under planning approval PL/2022/02308/PPFL to the Berkswell National Grid electricity substation.

Received
19 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Meriden
Agent
Renplan Ltd
  1. Received19 Oct
  2. Validated19 Oct
  3. Consult.16 Jan
  4. Target14 Dec
  5. Decided8 Jan

Decided in 81 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Berkswell Battery Storage Site Waste Lane Balsall Common Solihull CV7 7GH. Solihull has handled 590 applications of this type. This one was decided in 81 days, 4 weeks longer than Solihull's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Meriden. We hold 1,121 applications in total for the CV7 postcode area.

97% of conditions 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
CV7 7GH
Application type
Discharge of Conditions
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Berkswell Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 October 2025
Consultation expiry
16 January 2026
Consultation start
19 December 2025
Consultation end
16 January 2026
Last date for comments
8 January 2026
Target decision date
14 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Renplan Ltd
Architect profile
RENPLAN LTD
Agent address
Renplan Ltd. The Hive 6 Beaufighter Road Weston-super-Mare BS24 8EE

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14418931
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Green belt: Solihull
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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

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.

© 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.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Solihull

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