Unit 2B Redhill Business Park Staples Close Stafford Staffordshire ST16 1WQ
Approved on 14 September 2023
Council decision: AllowedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Installation of 424m2 of Solar PV to create 88.97kWp using Longi LR5-54HIH-410M panels on trapezoidal sheet metal roof with 5 x SolaX Hybrid inverters for future battery storage provision. The facility currently has 30KWp of Solar PV installed on the same roof elevation.
- Received
- 20 July 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Stafford Borough Council
- Ward
- Seighford And Church Eaton
- ReceivedReceived20 Jul
- ValidatedValidated20 Jul
- Consult.Consultation25 Aug
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided14 Sep
Decided in 56 days
About this application
This is a planning application for a solar installation at Unit 2B Redhill Business Park Staples Close Stafford Staffordshire ST16 1WQ. Stafford has handled 6,499 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 5 weeks quicker than Stafford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 27 applications across Seighford And Church Eaton. We hold 590 applications in total for the ST16 postcode area.
Application details
- Postcode
- ST16 1WQ
- Application type
- Other Prior Approvals
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Creswell
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 July 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 5 September 2023
- Consultation end
- 25 August 2023
- Neighbour consultation end
- 23 August 2023
- Last date for comments
- 5 September 2023
- Permission expires
- 14 September 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- FAO Mr Hempsall Unit E Brooke Court 1st Floor Handforth SK9 3ND
Publicity
- Site notice end
- 5 September 2023
Additional information
- Documents
- 7
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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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