County Hospital Weston Road Stafford Staffordshire ST16 3SA
Approved on 3 April 2025
Council decision: AllowedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
199 roof-mounted solar photovoltaic panels on the three-storey building, to include associated enabling works
- Received
- 19 December 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Stafford Borough Council
- Ward
- Littleworth
- ReceivedReceived19 Dec
- ValidatedValidated7 Feb
- Consult.Consultation17 Mar
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided3 Apr
Decided in 55 days (council typically 91)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a solar installation at County Hospital Weston Road Stafford Staffordshire ST16 3SA. Stafford has handled 3,847 applications of this type. This one was decided in 105 days, 2 weeks longer than Stafford's typical decision time. There have been 19 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 2 applications across Littleworth. We hold 590 applications in total for the ST16 postcode area.
85% of full applications at Stafford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 13 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- ST16 3SA
- Application type
- Full Application
- Parish
- Stafford M B
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 7 February 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 27 March 2025
- Consultation end
- 17 March 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 7 March 2025
- Last date for comments
- 27 March 2025
- Permission expires
- 3 April 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- FAO Mr R Bentley Churchill House 47 Regent Road Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire ST1 3RH
Publicity
- Site notice end
- 27 March 2025
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)
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