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Ladys Walk House, West Street, Great Somerford, Chippenham, SN15 5EH

PL/2025/09771Full planning permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 25 February 2026

Council decision: Refuse1 reason for refusal

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

Proposal

Installation of small ground mounted domestic solar array to serve Ladys Walk House

Submitted
23 December 2025
Ward
Brinkworth ED
  1. Received23 Dec
  2. Validated23 Dec
  3. Consult.5 Feb
  4. Target24 Feb
  5. Decided25 Feb

Decided in 64 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a solar installation at Ladys Walk House, West Street, Great Somerford, Chippenham, SN15 5EH. Wiltshire has handled 9,967 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 2 weeks longer than Wiltshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Somerford conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 109 applications across Brinkworth ED. We hold 909 applications in total for the SN15 postcode area.

93% of full applications at Wiltshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. The application fails to provide sufficient information to demonstrate that the BNG objective can be met and that the BGP condition is capable of being discharged. The proposal is therefore contrary to the requirements of Schedule 7A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as inserted by Schedule 14 of the Environment Act 2021), Core Policy 50 of the Wiltshire Core Strategy and the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
SN15 5EH
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Great Somerford CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 December 2025
Consultation expiry
5 February 2026
Consultation end
5 February 2026
Target decision date
24 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
63 days

Additional information

Documents
13

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: Great Somerford
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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, 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

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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