Planning application
Knowle And Dorridge Lawn Tennis Club Grove Road Knowle Solihull B93 0PH
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Provision of lights to court 7 by the installation of two 9 metre columns on court 7, each fitted with two 600W LED floodlights, and an additional two 400W LED floodlights fitted to the existing columns between courts 7 and 6.
As published by the council, reference PL/2026/01058/PPFL
Application record
- Reference
- PL/2026/01058/PPFL
- Status
- Awaiting decision
- Received
- 3 Jun 2026
- Validated
- 22 Jun 2026
- Ward
- Dorridge & Hockley Heath
- Parish
- Non-Civil Parish Or Community
- Postcode
- B93 0PH
Site history
Applications at this address on the Solihull register
This site has had 3 applications since 2022: 2 approved, 0 refused.
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PL/2024/01953/DIS Granted
Knowle And Dorridge Lawn Tennis Club Grove Road Knowle Solihull B93 0PH
Discharge condition No. 6 (Commissioning test) following planning approval PL/2020/00108/PPFL dated 04.03.2021 for Replacement of existing floodlighting on 4 tennis courts 1, 2, 3, 4 with LED lighting. Replacement of existing columns (currently 19 overall) with 11, 10 metre high thin green tubular columns with a total of 30 luminaires as per scheme attached (The number of luminaries remains the same as the existing scheme). This means that each court will be lit by 4 columns at each corner as per the scheme except for court 1 which will use one of the columns at the edge of court 3.
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PL/2022/01993/PPFL Granted
Knowle And Dorridge Lawn Tennis Club Grove Road Knowle Solihull B93 0PH
New floodlighting on two courts (Nos. 3 and 4) comprising 8 LED luminaires with cowls mounted on previously approved 10m columns (6 No.).
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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3 Jun 2026
Received by Solihull
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22 Jun 2026
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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23 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 17 August 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
Solihull took a median of 77 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
12 documents on file for this application
- SMBC - DRAINAGE & LLFA
- SMBC - PUBLIC PROTECTION
- SITE PLAN
- LOCATION PLAN
- APPLICATION FORM REDACTED
- PLANNING STATEMENT
- COLUMN CONFIGURATIONS
- ADDITIONAL LIGHTING INFORMATION 6 OF 6
- LIGHT IMPACT ASSESSMENT
- MUSCO
- LIGHTING DESIGN EVALUATION (5-7)
- LIGHTING DESIGN EXPLANATION
Trade members open them from here.
Open the documentsWhat happens while it is decided
This application is with Solihull for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Solihull's median decision took 77 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.
About this record
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