BT Phone Box, Cruthers Neck, Higher Town, St Martin's. Data via plota.co.uk

Pending P/26/044/FUL - Full

Council

Scilly Isles

Date received

around 4 Jun 2026

Date validated

4 Jun 2026

Postcode

TR25 0QL

Type

Full

Description

Installation of micro wind turbine and solar power system to maintain existing phone box (Listed building) The corresponding listed building consent application can be viewed via the link: P/26/045/LBC. Commenting on an application If you wish to comment on an application, you can do so in writing to the Planning Officer by email or by letter to the address below. Please note that postal commu Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:59

Decision outlook

Plota predicted a decision around 5 Oct 2026; it is now day 123.

Day 123, past the statutory target. 74% of full applications in Scilly Isles are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 24 Aug 2026.

target

predicted

Day 12367 days past the 56-day target

43%decided within 8 weeks

87%approved

24decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Scilly Isles in the last twelve months, from validation. Scilly Isles decision record →

Associated applications 2

Part of

Listed building4 Jun 2026P/26/045/LBC
Installation of micro wind turbine and solar power system to maintain existing phone box (Listed building) The documents…
- FullInstallation of micro wind turbine and solar power system to maintain existing phone box…This application4 Jun 2026P/26/044/FUL

Site constraints 9

Isles Of Scilly National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Isles of Scilly conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

Heritage coast: Isles of Scilly

A defined stretch of undeveloped coastline.

Development inconsistent with keeping the coast undeveloped is resisted.

Agricultural land, grade 5

Very 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 4. 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.

Special area of conservation about 109 m away: Isles of Scilly

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

Scheduled monument about 77 m away: Prehistoric entrance grave, the northern one of three on Cruther's Hill, St Martin's

Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.

Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.

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Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

SSSI about 190 m away: St. Martin's Sedimentary Shore SSSI

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

Also on the record

Heritage at risk about 77 m away: Prehistoric entrance grave, the northern one of three on Cruther's Hill.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 11 September 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 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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