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Land at Stourhead, Near Mere, Warminster, BA12 6QD

PL/2025/09055Screening Opinion - TCPA EIA 2006Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 12 December 2025

Council decision: EIA Not required

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

Proposal

Request for a Screening Opinion under Regulation 6 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended) for Construction and operation of a ground mounted solar PV array together with all associated works, ancil

Submitted
14 November 2025
Ward
Mere ED
  1. Received14 Nov
  2. Validated14 Nov
  3. Consult.1 Dec
  4. Target12 Dec
  5. Decided12 Dec

Decided in 28 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Land at Stourhead, Near Mere, Warminster, BA12 6QD. Wiltshire has handled 971 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 3 weeks quicker than Wiltshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Stourton conservation area, with 15 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 67 applications across Mere ED. We hold 1,459 applications in total for the BA12 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
BA12 6QD
Application type
Screening Opinion - TCPA EIA 2006
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Stourton with Gasper CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 November 2025
Consultation expiry
1 December 2025
Consultation end
1 December 2025
Target decision date
12 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
1

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: Stourton
  • Listed building: Grade II: The Estate OfficeOn or next to this site
  • Registered park and garden: Stourhead
  • National Landscape (AONB): Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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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