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Land South-West of Outclough Farm, Whitfield Lane, Chatterley Whitfield, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 8UW

67827/FULFull Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 23 August 2023

Council decision: Grant with ConditionsDevelopment Management Commitee

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Installation of a 49.9MW battery energy storage system, associated apparatus, vehicular accesses, control rooms, 1.5m high planted earth bund, land level changes, fencing, lighting and CCTV columns

Received
17 March 2022
Decision level
Development Management Commitee
Ward
Baddeley, Milton & Norton
Agent
The Abbey Group Cambridgeshire Ltd
  1. Received17 Mar
  2. Validated15 Nov
  3. Consult.23 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Aug

Decided in 281 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land South-West of Outclough Farm, Whitfield Lane, Chatterley Whitfield, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 8UW. Stoke on Trent has handled 2,420 applications of this type. This one was decided in 524 days, 65 weeks longer than Stoke on Trent's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,470 applications in total for the ST6 postcode area.

80% of full applications at Stoke-on-Trent City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 10 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
ST6 8UW
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 November 2022
Consultation expiry
23 December 2022
Consultation start
24 August 2022
Consultation end
23 December 2022
Neighbour consultation start
28 November 2022
Neighbour consultation end
23 December 2022
Last date for comments
10 January 2023
Committee meeting
23 August 2023
Application expires
10 January 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
The Abbey Group Cambridgeshire Ltd
Agent address
Suite 2 Clare Hall, St Ives Business Park, Parsons Green, St Ives, PE27 4WY

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
2 December 2022
Advertisement expiry
23 December 2022
Site notice start
12 May 2022
Site notice end
23 December 2022

Additional information

Documents
78

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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.

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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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    20 Feb

    Discharge of conditions 7 and 14 on application 67827/FUL

    PendingDischarge of conditions26/DCC/00146
  2. 2022
    17 Mar

    Installation of a 49.9MW battery energy storage system, associated apparatus, vehicular accesses, control…

    This applicationApprovedFull67827/FUL
  3. No date

    Variation of conditions 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13 and 14 of permission 67827/FUL

    PendingVariation of conditions (s73)26/VAR/00283

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