← Back to Essex

Energy sites / United Kingdom / Essex

Onshore wind · United Kingdom

High Barns Wind Turbine

Application Refused1.5 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 1 April 2015

Technology
Onshore wind
Capacity
1.5 MW
Status
Application Refused (Planning Permission Refused)
Operator or applicant
Renewable Energy Systems (RES)
Location
The Lodge Plough Road Great Bentley Colchester Essex CO7 8RP, Essex, United Kingdom
Planning authority
Tendring
Planning application
14/00932/FUL
Turbines
1

View on OpenStreetMap. The larger dot is this site; the others are sites within 40 km.

  • 16 July 2014 Planning application submitted
  • 30 March 2015 Planning permission refused

None found. The register holds no published incident that names High Barns Wind Turbine. If you know of one, report it (confidential reports are anonymised).

The register holds 54 incidents at onshore wind farms in the United Kingdom, 22 of them fires, and 297 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.

What fails at onshore wind farms

Own, insure or lend to this site or others like it? A portfolio safety record checks every site in a list against the register, free; the paid records add the site, operator, cause, downtime and loss behind each incident.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero). The dataset. The register adds only the incidents and the counts.