Rocket Medical 2 Sedling Road Wear Industrial Estate Washington NE38 9BZ
Approved on 6 February 2023
Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Installation of 426.88 kWp Solar PV system spread between 3 roofs
- Received
- 9 December 2022
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Sunderland City Council
- Ward
- Washington South
- ReceivedReceived9 Dec
- ValidatedValidated9 Dec
- Consult.Consultation4 Jan
- TargetTarget Date6 Feb
- DecidedDecided6 Feb
Decided in 59 days
About this application
This is a planning application for a solar installation at Rocket Medical 2 Sedling Road Wear Industrial Estate Washington NE38 9BZ. Sunderland has handled 2,503 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 10 days longer than Sunderland's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 6 applications across Washington South. We hold 227 applications in total for the NE38 postcode area.
Application details
- Postcode
- NE38 9BZ
- Application type
- PCZ Other solar photovoltaics
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 December 2022
- Consultation expiry
- 31 January 2023
- Consultation start
- 14 December 2022
- Consultation end
- 4 January 2023
- Last date for comments
- 31 January 2023
- Target decision date
- 6 February 2023
- Permission expires
- 6 February 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Mr David Gardiner Gateway House Gateway West Newburn Riverside NE15 8NX
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 59 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 10 January 2023
- Site notice end
- 31 January 2023
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-11725482
- Documents
- 12
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
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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Source: Sunderland
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