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Homebase Unit A St Johns Retail Park Church Lane Wolverhampton West Midlands WV2 4SJ

25/00834/PAOTHOther PD Prior ApprovalsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 14 August 2025

Council decision: Grant - Prior Approval RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

The development is a 354kW rooftop solar PV on the (now formerly) Homebase building in the St. John's shopping center. This solar PV will supply roughly half of the retail store's on-site demand, thus increasing its energy security and reducing load on the grid. In addition, all excess energy will be exported through the grid, thus increasing the grid's stability and providing clean energy to the local GSP. This application takes into account the full, usable area roof of the building within the most stringent health and safety requirements including access and maintenance, providing secure, resilient energy generation with discreet siting, low profile, and minimal visual or acoustic impact.

Received
22 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Blakenhall
  1. Received22 Jul
  2. Validated22 Jul
  3. Consult.14 Aug
  4. Target16 Sep
  5. Decided14 Aug

Decided in 23 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Homebase Unit A St Johns Retail Park Church Lane Wolverhampton West Midlands WV2 4SJ. Wolverhampton has handled 517 applications of this type. This one was decided in 23 days, 3 weeks quicker than Wolverhampton's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 19 applications across Blakenhall. We hold 120 applications in total for the WV2 postcode area.

93% of outline applications at Wolverhampton City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WV2 4SJ
Application type
Other PD Prior Approvals
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 July 2025
Consultation expiry
14 August 2025
Last date for comments
14 August 2025
Target decision date
16 September 2025
Permission expires
14 August 2030

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
24 July 2025
Site notice end
14 August 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14196648
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Telecom House, Church Street, Wolverhampton City CentreRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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, 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 and heritage coasts.

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