Widdishins Day Centre East Avenue Sebastopol Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5BE
Approved on 5 March 2026
Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions
Proposal
Ground Mounted Solar Panels.
- Received
- 15 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Panteg
- ReceivedReceived15 Jan
- ValidatedValidated23 Jan
- Consult.Consultation4 Mar
- TargetTarget Date6 Mar
- DecidedDecided5 Mar
Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a solar installation at Widdishins Day Centre East Avenue Sebastopol Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5BE. Torfaen has handled 2,254 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Torfaen's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Panteg. We hold 2,850 applications in total for the NP4 postcode area.
89% of full applications at Torfaen County Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- NP4 5BE
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Pontypool Community Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 4 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 11 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 4 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 30 January 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 20 February 2026
- Last date for comments
- 4 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 6 March 2026
- Permission expires
- 5 March 2031
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Mr Simon Pritchard
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 2 February 2026
- Site notice end
- 23 February 2026
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14625582
- Documents
- 32
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
Source: Torfaen
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