Land At Salters Lane Slingley Hill South Sharpley SR7 9TW
Proposal
Installation of a solar farm together with all associated works, equipment and necessary infrastructure including battery storage. (Additional plans and documents received 28.05.2026).
- Received
- 30 June 2025
- Decision due
- 30 November 2026
- Public comments
- 30
- Council
- Sunderland City Council
- Ward
- Houghton South And Hetton Downs
- ReceivedReceived30 Jun
- ValidatedValidated11 Jul
- Consult.Consultation11 Sep
- TargetTarget Date30 Nov
- DecidedDecided
About this application
This is a full planning application for a solar installation at Land At Salters Lane Slingley Hill South Sharpley SR7 9TW. Sunderland has handled 694 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 30 June 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 3 applications across Houghton South And Hetton Downs. We hold 619 applications in total for the SR7 postcode area.
92% of full applications at Sunderland City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- SR7 9TW
- Application type
- Full Application (Reg 4)
- Scale / size
- Large
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 July 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 11 September 2025
- Consultation start
- 6 August 2026
- Consultation end
- 11 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 17 July 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 7 August 2025
- Last date for comments
- 27 August 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Mr Paul Burrell 33 Sheep Street Cirencester GL7 1RQ United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 507 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 23 July 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 13 August 2025
- Site notice start
- 25 July 2025
- Site notice end
- 15 August 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14141778
- Documents
- 184
- Constraints
- 12
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.
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.
Source: Sunderland
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