Planning application
Land At Highfields Farm Clifton Lane Tamworth Staffordshire B79 0AQ
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
The installation of a section of cable route associated with the Thorpe Solar Farm
As published by the council, reference 25/01024/FUL
Application record
- Reference
- 25/01024/FUL
- Type
- Full Application
- Status
- Decided
- Decision
- Granted As published: Approve
- Received
- 14 Aug 2025
- Validated
- 15 Aug 2025
- Decided
- 15 Jan 2026
- Ward
- Mease Valley
- Parish
- Clifton Campville
- Decision by
- Delegated Decision
- Postcode
- B79 0AQ
Site history
Applications at this address on the Lichfield register
This site has had 2 applications since 2021: 2 approved, 0 refused.
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22/00110/FULM Granted
Land At Highfields Farm Clifton Lane Tamworth Staffordshire B79 0AQ
Installation of a solar farm comprising ground-mounted Solar Photovoltaic panels (PV) with a generating capacity of up to 49.9MW together with all associated works, equipment and necessary infrastructure
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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14 Aug 2025
Received by Lichfield
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15 Aug 2025
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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15 Jan 2026
Decision issued: Approve
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22 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
34 documents on file for this application
- Decision notice cond 4
- Ful decision
- Planning report
- _ staffordshire county council rights of way
- 1094-thorpe-010revc-251021-(thorpe estate solar - cable application)
- 794-pln-wwp-00236-trp-04b cable corridor technical note reduced.
- _right of way officer
- 1094-thorpe-010revc-251021-(thorpe estate solar - cable application).pdf
- 1094-thorpe-010revc-251021-(thorpe estate solar - cable application).pdf
- 794-pln-wwp-00236-trp-04b cable corridor technical note reduced.pdf
- _ arboricultural officer - ldc
- _ staffordshire county council rights of way
- Jsl3331_770 - aia p04.pdf
- _ arboricultural officer - ldc
- _ environmental health officer - ldc
- _ arboricultural officer - ldc
- _ environmental health officer - ldc
- _ archaeology officer - scc
- _ ecology manager - ldc
- _national grid electricity
- _staffordshire county highways
- _national gas transmission
- Applicationformredacted
- 250709 r 00486 ej planning statement - final
- Pages from thorpe estate - archaeological statement aug25 v2r- part 2
- Thorpe estate - archaeological statement aug25 v2r - part 1
- Thorpe estate - archaeological statement aug25 v2r-part 3
- Thorpe estate - archaeological statement aug25 v2r-part 4
- Thorpe estate - archaeological statement aug25 v2r-part 5
- Thorpe estate - archaeological statement aug25 v2r-part 6
- Site layout and trenching plan
- Jsl3331_770 - aia p02
- 1094-thorpe-006reva-250729-(thorpe - site location plan)
- 794-pln-wwp-trp-00236-04a cable corridor technical note
- 31_07_2025_thorpe_cable_route_ full_report_format
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