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26/01114/SCRE - Screening Opinion Decided

Proposal

Request for a screening opinion to determine whether proposals comprising the installation of a ground mounted photovoltaic farm with associated infrastructure, engineering works, access, and landscaping, together with works associated with the grid connection underground cable route corridor to the point of connection substation, comprises Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) development. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:59

Application progress

✓

Received

12 Jun 2026

✓

Consultation

17 Jun 2026

✓

Enquiry Closed

3 Jul 2026

Enquiry Closed on 3 Jul 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 6

Green belt: South and West Yorkshire

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Flood zone 3, rivers and sea

High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

Flood map ↗

Agricultural land, grade 3a

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). 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 2. 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.

National infrastructure project about 608 m away: Knottingley Power Project

The site is about 608 m from the project boundary. Generating station, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted.

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 4; Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

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 Mining Remediation Authority, the Planning Inspectorate, 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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Important details

Council: Doncaster
Application type: Screening Opinion
Postcode: DN5 7AS
Received: 12 Jun 2026
Validated: 12 Jun 2026
Ward: Sprotbrough
Parish: Marr Parish Meeting
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 3 Jul 2026
Decision: Enquiry Closed
Decision date: 3 Jul 2026
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show

Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 17 Jun 2026
Comments by: 1 Jul 2026
Statutory expiry: 3 Jul 2026
Env. assessment: No

Doncaster

Planning Authority Score

7.7/10

Good

#36 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Doncaster is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #27 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England

for householder decisions

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Doncaster decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

87%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #169 of 296

94%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #103 of 296

83%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #27 of 296

33%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #75 of 296

67%

Minor dwellings approved

135 decided (1-9 homes)

93%

Major dwellings approved

27 decided (10+ homes)

90%

Change of use approved

48 decided

928

Total decisions

122 refused in the year to March 2026