Tesco Extra 1 - 5 The Forum Town Centre Stevenage Herts SG1 1ES
Approved on 1 April 2026
Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Prior approval for Solar PV installation to reduce electrical consumption and therefore carbon emissions at the commercial property.
- Received
- 17 February 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Stevenage Borough Council
- Ward
- Old Town
- ReceivedReceived17 Feb
- ValidatedValidated17 Feb
- Consult.Consultation11 Mar
- TargetTarget Date3 Apr
- DecidedDecided1 Apr
Decided in 43 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Tesco Extra 1 - 5 The Forum Town Centre Stevenage Herts SG1 1ES. Stevenage has handled 301 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 6 days quicker than Stevenage's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 60 applications across Old Town. We hold 993 applications in total for the SG1 postcode area.
85% of outline applications at Stevenage Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- SG1 1ES
- Application type
- Commercial Prior App. Solar PV
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- To Follow
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 11 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 18 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 11 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 18 February 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 11 March 2026
- Last date for comments
- 11 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 3 April 2026
- Permission expires
- 1 April 2029
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Aliya Muskaan Khalil
- Statutory period
- 45 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Article 4 direction: Stevenage
- Tree Preservation Order: Ref 32Protected tree on or next to this site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation 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.
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© 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.
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