Skip to content
PlanIndex Get alerts
Menu

Planning application

The Robert Smyth School Burnmill Road Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 7JG

Refused Harborough 23/01452/PDN Permitted Development Notification

Refused. Only the applicant can appeal, within the statutory time limit, and a revised scheme can be submitted instead.

Proposal

Notification to determine if Prior Approval is required to supply and install 420 No PV solar panels with a maximum output of 170.1 kWp. The panels will be installed on the flat and pitched roofs of the school buildings.

As published by the council, reference 23/01452/PDN

Application record

Reference
23/01452/PDN
Type
Permitted Development Notification
Status
Refused
Decision
Refused As published: Refuse
Received
4 Oct 2023
Validated
4 Oct 2023
Decided
9 Jan 2024
Ward
Market Harborough Logan
Parish
Market Harborough
Postcode
LE16 7JG

Site history

Applications at this address on the Harborough register

This site has had 9 applications since 2020: 7 approved, 1 refused.

  • 26/01360/TPO Awaiting decision

    The Robert Smyth School Burnmill Road Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 7JG

    Works to 10x lime trees, re-pollard cutting to previous pollard points (HDC TPO 213)

    Submitted 21 Sep 2026 Trees
  • 24/00662/PCD Granted

    The Robert Smyth School Burnmill Road Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 7JG

    Discharge of Conditions 4 (construction management plan), 6 (pitch specification) and 7 (materials schedule) of 23/00258/FUL

    Decided 18 Jul 2024 Conditions
  • 24/00255/FUL Granted

    The Robert Smyth School Burnmill Road Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 7JG

    Installation of 420 PV solar panels with a maximum output of 170.1 kWp

    Decided 9 Jul 2024 Full applications
  • 24/00256/LBC Granted

    The Robert Smyth School Burnmill Road Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 7JG

    Installation of 420 PV solar panels with a maximum output of 170.1 kWp

    Decided 9 Jul 2024 Heritage and listed buildings
  • 23/01645/PCD Granted

    The Robert Smyth School Burnmill Road Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 7JG

    Discharge of Condition 5 (Community Use Agreement) of 20/00004/FUL (Retrospective)

    Decided 11 Jan 2024 Conditions
  • 22/00937/FUL Granted

    The Robert Smyth School Burnmill Road Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 7JG

    Demolition of existing caretaker's property and existing single storey modular building, erection of a single storey building with associated landscaping and creation of car parking

    Decided 11 Jul 2022 Full applications
  • 20/01597/PCD Granted

    The Robert Smyth School Burnmill Road Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 7JG

    Discharge of Conditions 3 (floodlighting louvres/cowls), 4 (fence/noise dampening materials) and 9 (Screen Planting Scheme) of 20/00004/FUL

    Decided 19 Apr 2021 Conditions
  • 20/01000/FUL Granted

    The Robert Smyth School Burnmill Road Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 7JG

    Erection of perimeter fencing (part retrospective)

    Decided 14 Aug 2020 Full applications

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 4 Oct 2023

    Received by Harborough

  2. 9 Jan 2024

    Decision issued: Refuse

  3. 22 Jul 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

Documents

Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report

3 documents on file for this application

A planning file usually holds the application form, drawings and site plans, consultee responses, the officer's report and the decision notice.

Watch members (£5 a month) open the document list from here.

Open the documents

What this refusal means

Harborough refused this application for the reasons on the decision notice; only the applicant can appeal, and refused schemes often return in revised form. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.

About prior approval applications

Prior approval applies where permitted development rights already grant the principle of the work, leaving the council only the specific matters the rules name, commonly within 56 days. More in our guide to planning application types.

Nearby applications

Within 0.3 miles

In Harborough

  • 26/01145/AGR Awaiting decision

    2 Sutton Fields Farm Leicester Road Broughton Astley Leicestershire LE9 6RB

    Prior Notification for the erection of an agricultural building

    Received 10 Aug, published by the council 25 Aug 2026 Prior approval
  • 26/01134/PDN Awaiting decision

    Manor Farm Lutterworth Road Arnesby Leicestershire LE8 5UT

    Application to determine if Prior Approval is required for a proposed: Change of Use of Agricultural Buildings to a light industrial use within Class E(g)(iii) - The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 3, Class R

    Received 5 Aug, published by the council 18 Aug 2026 Prior approval
  • 26/00957/DEM Refused

    Moorbarns Farm Moorbarns Lane Lutterworth Leicestershire LE17 4JD

    Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Demolition of Buildings (agricultural building) The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 11, Class B

    Received 1 Jul, published by the council 22 Jul 2026 Prior approval
  • 26/00952/AGR Refused

    Land Off Mill Lane Shearsby Leicestershire

    Prior Notification for the erection of a general purpose agricultural building

    Received 30 Jun, published by the council 22 Jul 2026 Prior approval
  • 26/00977/PDN Granted

    Radio Mast Holt Lane Ashby Magna Leicestershire

    The Electronic Communications Code (Conditions and Restrictions) Regulations 2003 (as amended) - Regulation 5 Notice of Intention to Install Electronic Communications Apparatus/Development Ancillary to Radio Equipment Housing (one 600mm dish on a new stand off bracket fixed to existing tower leg) - Permitted Development - For information purposes only. This is not an application to which comments can be made

    Received 25 Jun, published by the council 22 Jul 2026 Prior approval