Solar · United Kingdom
North Farm, Horton - Solar Farm
Awaiting Construction19 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 11 June 2025
The site
- Technology
- Solar
- Capacity
- 19 MW
- Status
- Awaiting Construction (Planning Permission Granted)
- Operator or applicant
- North Farm Mannington Solar Limited / BayWa r.e.
- Location
- North Farm Horton, Dorset, BH21 7HL, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Dorset
- Planning application
- P/FUL/2023/02829
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Timeline
- 16 May 2023 Planning application submitted
- 7 May 2025 Planning permission granted
- 7 May 2030 Planning permission expired
Incidents on the register at this site
None found. The register holds no published incident that names North Farm, Horton - Solar Farm. If you know of one, report it (confidential reports are anonymised).
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Incidents at solar farms in the United Kingdom
The register holds 86 incidents at solar farms in the United Kingdom, 59 of them fires, and 344 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.
- Fire involving solar panels at a Market Harborough house spreads to an adjoining property
- Solar inverter fire on agricultural building in Shropshire
- Fire damages solar panel batteries in a Teignmouth garage
- Fire damages roof with one solar panel in The Charltons
- Solar panels on flat roof alight at terraced building in Newquay
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