Wantage Leisure Centre Portway Wantage OX12 9BY
Approved on 14 November 2024
Council decision: Planning Permission
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Proposal
The supply and installation of air source heat pumps, new double glazing, solar PV, and external wall insulation. (Amended noise impact assessment received 6 September 2024).(Amended noise impact assessment received 23 September 2024) (Amended application form received - updating applicant name and ownership certificate received 21 October 2024)
- Received
- 26 June 2024
- ReceivedReceived26 Jun
- ValidatedValidated15 Jul
- Consult.Consultation11 Nov
- TargetTarget Date14 Nov
- DecidedDecided14 Nov
Decided in 122 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a solar installation at Wantage Leisure Centre Portway Wantage OX12 9BY. Vale of White Horse has handled 3,451 applications of this type. This one was decided in 141 days, 12 weeks longer than Vale of White Horse's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,597 applications in total for the OX12 postcode area.
95% of full applications at Vale of White Horse District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- OX12 9BY
- Application type
- Minor (Full Application)
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 15 July 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 11 November 2024
- Consultation start
- 18 July 2024
- Consultation end
- 11 November 2024
- Target decision date
- 14 November 2024
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 122 days
Appeal
- Appeal status
- No appeal lodged.
Additional information
- Documents
- 36
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Listed building: Grade II: Wall Approximately 20 Metres South of King Alfred'S SchoolOn or next to this site
- National Landscape (AONB): North Wessex Downs
- 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 (20)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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, 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: Vale of White Horse
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