Advanced Training Centre Harwell Science Campus Road Thirteen Didcot OX11 0RD
Approved on 2 December 2024
Council decision: Prior Approval not required
Proposal
Installation of Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Panels (as amended by plan received 22 November 2024).
- Received
- 11 September 2024
- ReceivedReceived11 Sep
- ValidatedValidated17 Sep
- Consult.Consultation16 Oct
- TargetTarget Date6 Dec
- DecidedDecided2 Dec
Decided in 76 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a solar installation at Advanced Training Centre Harwell Science Campus Road Thirteen Didcot OX11 0RD. Vale of White Horse has handled 778 applications of this type. This one was decided in 82 days, 4 weeks longer than Vale of White Horse's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,447 applications in total for the OX11 postcode area.
88% of outline 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
- OX11 0RD
- Application type
- Other (PD Solar)
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 September 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 16 October 2024
- Consultation start
- 19 September 2024
- Consultation end
- 16 October 2024
- Target decision date
- 6 December 2024
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 80 days
Appeal
- Appeal status
- No appeal lodged.
Additional information
- Documents
- 14
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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 (21)
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, 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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Source: Vale of White Horse
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