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Sainsburys Chell Road Stafford Staffordshire ST16 2TF

25/40312/POTHOther Prior ApprovalsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 24 April 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Approval - Proposed installation of solar PV panels to the rooftops, an installation of a 211kWp solar PV system, on a non-domestic flat rooftop, to produce low carbon renewable energy for the site

Received
25 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Coton
  1. Received25 Feb
  2. Validated10 Mar
  3. Consult.9 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided24 Apr

Decided in 45 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a solar installation at Sainsburys Chell Road Stafford Staffordshire ST16 2TF. Stafford has handled 6,502 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 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 11 applications across Coton. We hold 590 applications in total for the ST16 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
ST16 2TF
Application type
Other Prior Approvals
Parish
Stafford M B

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 March 2025
Consultation expiry
14 April 2025
Consultation end
9 April 2025
Neighbour consultation end
2 April 2025
Last date for comments
14 April 2025
Permission expires
24 April 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Ineco Energy Ltd Rural Innovation Centre Avenue H, Stoneleigh Park Kenilworth Warwickshire CV8 2LG

Publicity

Site notice end
14 April 2025

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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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© 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.

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