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Land East Of Back Road Yelverton Norfolk

2025/1442FullApproved

Approved on 30 September 2026

Council decision: Approval with Conditions30 conditions

Proposal

Construction and operation of a circa 15MW Solar Farm, comprising the erection of solar panels mounted on metal frames, centralised inverter housing, spares container, new access tracks, underground cabling, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, temporary construction compounds, landscaping, and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated site works

Received
12 May 2025
Public comments
23
Ward
Brooke
  1. Received12 May
  2. Validated29 May
  3. Consult.24 Mar
  4. Target28 Aug
  5. Decided30 Sep

Decided in 489 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a solar installation at Land East Of Back Road Yelverton Norfolk. South Norfolk Broadland has handled 7,102 applications of this type. This one was decided in 506 days, 65 weeks longer than South Norfolk Broadland's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 22 applications across Brooke.

94% of full applications at South Norfolk District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Full
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Yelverton

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 May 2025
Consultation expiry
24 March 2026
Consultation start
3 March 2026
Consultation end
24 March 2026
Neighbour consultation start
2 June 2025
Neighbour consultation end
23 June 2025
Target decision date
28 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Neo Environmental
Agent address
Spaces 8th Floor The Programme Building The Pithay Bristol BS1 2NB

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
5 June 2025
Advertisement expiry
26 June 2025
Site notice start
20 June 2025
Site notice end
11 July 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13978675
Documents
93
Constraints
42

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)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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: South Norfolk Broadland

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