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Court Close Farm, Lower North Wraxall, Chippenham, SN14 7AD

PL/2025/03056Prior approval Part 14 Class J: Installation or alteration etc of solar equipment on non-domestic premisesApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 20 June 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Not Required

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

The proposal is for a 60.52 Kilowatt system on the roof of our free range egg layers shed.

Submitted
28 April 2025
Ward
By Brook ED
  1. Received28 Apr
  2. Validated28 Apr
  3. Consult.27 May
  4. Target23 Jun
  5. Decided20 Jun

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Court Close Farm, Lower North Wraxall, Chippenham, SN14 7AD. Wiltshire has handled 971 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 4 days longer than Wiltshire's typical decision time. The site is in the North Wraxall conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across By Brook ED. We hold 2,030 applications in total for the SN14 postcode area.

80% of outline applications at Wiltshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SN14 7AD
Application type
Prior approval Part 14 Class J: Installation or alteration etc of solar equipment on non-domestic premises
Scale / size
Small
Parish
North Wraxall CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 April 2025
Consultation expiry
27 May 2025
Consultation end
27 May 2025
Target decision date
23 June 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: North Wraxall
  • Listed building: Grade II: Court Close FarmhouseOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • National Landscape (AONB): Cotswolds
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Wiltshire

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