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Land At Haigh Lane And Woolley Edge Lane Wakefield

23/01517/EIASOEIA Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 15 August 2023

Council decision: EIA Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Request for screening opinion to confirm whether there is a requirement for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in respect of a proposed Solar Farm development

Received
8 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wakefield Rural
  1. Received8 Aug
  2. Validated8 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Aug
  5. Decided15 Aug

Decided in 7 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Land At Haigh Lane And Woolley Edge Lane Wakefield. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 7 days, 7 weeks quicker than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Wakefield Rural.

95% of outline applications at Wakefield Metropolitan District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
EIA Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 August 2023
Target decision date
29 August 2023
Permission expires
15 August 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Wakefield
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas and Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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

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© 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.

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Source: Wakefield

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