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Water Treatment Works Clough Lane Dewsbury WF12 8LL

23/02276/EIASOEIA Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 15 December 2023

Council decision: EIA Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Request for a Screening Opinion for a Solar PV Array

Received
1 December 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ossett
  1. Received1 Dec
  2. Validated1 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 Dec
  5. Decided15 Dec

Decided in 14 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Water Treatment Works Clough Lane Dewsbury WF12 8LL. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 14 days, 6 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 10 applications across Ossett. We hold 252 applications in total for the WF12 postcode area.

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

Postcode
WF12 8LL
Application type
EIA Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 December 2023
Target decision date
22 December 2023
Permission expires
15 December 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
1C Swinegate Court East 3 Swinegate York YO1 8AJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Green belt: Wakefield+1 more

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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Source: Wakefield

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