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Land Adjacent The Gate International Drive Shirley Solihull

PL/2026/00907/PPFLApproved

Approved on 18 September 2026

15 conditions

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

Proposal

Installation of ground mounted solar photovoltaic panels, battery storage housing, and associated works.

Received
12 May 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 2 November 2026
Ward
St Alphege With Monkspath & Hillfield
  1. Received12 May
  2. Validated12 May
  3. Consult.10 Jun
  4. Target30 Sep
  5. Decided18 Sep

Decided in 129 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a solar installation at Land Adjacent The Gate International Drive Shirley Solihull. Solihull has handled 8,363 applications of this type. This one was decided in 129 days, 10 weeks longer 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 106 applications across St Alphege With Monkspath & Hillfield. We hold 1,440 applications in total for the B90 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
B90 3FX
Parish
Non-Civil Parish Or Community

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 May 2026
Consultation end
10 June 2026
Target decision date
30 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant company

I.m. Group Limited

Company number 03456018

Status
Active
Type
Private limited company
Incorporated
27 Oct 1997 (29 years old)
Nature of business
Activities of head offices
Registered office
Solihull
View on Companies House

Company information from Companies House.

Additional information

Documents
40

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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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