Sci Tech Laboratories Grove Drive The Grove Craven Arms Shropshire SY7 8DA Data via plota.co.uk

Pending 25/04855/FUL
Council
Shropshire 7.3/10
Date received
around 23 Dec 2025
Date validated
23 Dec 2025
Postcode
SY7 8DA

Description

Construct new steel portal framed storage building on site of demolished bungalow and mobile office units Data via plota.co.uk

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Decision outlook

Plota predicted a decision around 29 Oct 2026; it is now day 310.

Day 310, past the statutory target. 90% of full applications in Shropshire are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 10 Oct 2026.

Day 310254 days past the 56-day target
68%decided within 8 weeks
90%approved
994decided in the last year

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Associated applications 3

Site constraints 6

Agricultural land, grade 4
Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Radon affected area, class 5
An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.
From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.
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Also on the record
National landscape about 293 m away: Shropshire Hills; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; Priority habitat about 28 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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3 Sept 2026Decided

Sci Tech Laboratories Grove Drive The Grove Craven Arms Shropshire SY7 8DA

Discharge Condition 5 (trees) of planning permission No. 25/04855/FUL

26/03287/DIS
3 Sept 2026Approved

Sci Tech Laboratories Grove Drive The Grove Craven Arms Shropshire SY7 8DA

Discharge of Biodiversity Gain Plan relating to 25/04855/FUL

26/03288/DIS

Historical activity at this location

1 nearby application on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2018 Approved
1 Grove Drive Wistanstow Craven Arms Shropshire SY7 8DA
Erection of replacement garage with self contained annex above ancillary to main dwelling
18/05644/FUL
Shropshire
Planning Authority Score
7.3/10
Good
#53 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Shropshire is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #53 out of 296. Only 29% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
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Shropshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
87%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #179 of 296
93%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #136 of 296
78%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #53 of 296
29%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #50 of 296
68%
Minor dwellings approved
350 decided (1-9 homes)
63%
Major dwellings approved
35 decided (10+ homes)
78%
Change of use approved
27 decided
2,083
Total decisions
273 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings