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LAND SOUTH WEST OF A38 BURTON BYPASS FROM BRANSTON TO COUNTY BOUNDARY AT CLAY MILLS BURTON UPON TRENT

Awaiting decision East Staffordshire P/2026/00708 Consultation

Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.

Proposal

Consultation - Planning Inspectorate Reference: EN0110037 - Castle Way Energy - EIA Scoping Report - BSSL Derbyshire 1 LTD - proposed solar development with co-located battery energy storage systems (‘BESS’) and associated cable corridors (‘the Proposed Development’). This report forms a formal request for a Scoping Opinion from the Secretary of State (‘SoS’) for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (‘DESNZ’) under Regulation 10(1) of the Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (‘the EIA Regulations’)1.

As published by the council, reference P/2026/00708

Application record

Reference
P/2026/00708
Type
Consultation
Status
Live
Received
17 Jun 2026
Validated
1 Jul 2026
Ward
Stretton
Parish
Stretton CP
Decision by
Delegated

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 17 Jun 2026

    Received by East Staffordshire

  2. 1 Jul 2026

    Validated

    Checked as complete and ready for consideration.

  3. 22 Jul 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

  4. Decision

    Awaiting decision

    Decision expected by 26 August 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.

    East Staffordshire took a median of 81 days over the applications it decided in the last year.

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Castle Way Energy Applicant

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Documents

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11 documents on file for this application

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What happens while it is decided

This application is with East Staffordshire for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year East Staffordshire's median decision took 81 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.

About outline applications

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