The Old Vicarage Church Lane Grazeley Wokingham RG7 1LD
Approved on 28 March 2023
Council decision: Approve
Proposal
Full application for the change of use from a meadow to part small- scale private solar array of 36 panels for personal generation of electricity.
- Received
- 9 November 2022
- Council
- Wokingham Borough Council
- Ward
- Shinfield South
- ReceivedReceived9 Nov
- ValidatedValidated25 Jan
- Consult.Consultation15 Feb
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided28 Mar
Decided in 62 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at The Old Vicarage Church Lane Grazeley Wokingham RG7 1LD. Wokingham has handled 725 applications of this type. This one was decided in 139 days, 12 weeks longer than Wokingham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 1 application across Shinfield South. We hold 1,944 applications in total for the RG7 postcode area.
85% of amendment applications at Wokingham Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- RG7 1LD
- Application type
- Amendment
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Shinfield
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 January 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 15 February 2023
- Consultation start
- 25 January 2023
- Consultation end
- 15 February 2023
- Application expires
- 5 April 2023
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Glen Road Glen Road Grayshott GU266NF
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 70 days
Appeal
- Appeal result
- N
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-11678610
- Documents
- 22
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Wokingham
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