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Micro Hydro Scheme Kingswood Gloucestershire

S.11/0395/FULFull Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 24 November 2011

Council decision: Disposal LetterDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Construction of a micro hydro scheme using water from the Little Avon river to generate renewable energy.

Received
24 February 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Kingswood Ward
  1. Received24 Feb
  2. Validated28 Feb
  3. Consult.12 Apr
  4. Target25 Apr
  5. Decided24 Nov

Decided in 269 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Micro Hydro Scheme Kingswood Gloucestershire. Stroud has handled 3,349 applications of this type. This one was decided in 273 days, 32 weeks longer than Stroud's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 52 applications across Kingswood Ward.

86% of full applications at Stroud District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Kingswood Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 February 2011
Consultation expiry
12 April 2011
Consultation start
22 March 2011
Consultation end
12 April 2011
Last date for comments
12 April 2011
Target decision date
25 April 2011

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Old Walls Ponsworthy Newton Abbot Devon TQ13 7PN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
14 March 2011
Site notice end
4 April 2011

Additional information

Documents
26

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

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

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.

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