Solar · United Kingdom
Raventhorpe Lodge (Sweeting Thorns)
Planning Permission Expired25 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 23 September 2020
The site
- Technology
- Solar
- Capacity
- 25 MW
- Status
- Planning Permission Expired
- Operator or applicant
- Wirsol / Elgar Middleton
- Location
- Raventhorpe Lodge, Storage Lan, Brigg Road, Access Road In Raventhorpe Lod, Scunthorpe, Humberside, Humberside, DN16 3RJ, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- North Lincolnshire
- Planning application
- PA/2015/0114
- Appeal reference
- APP/Y2003/W/16/3145863
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Timeline
- 12 February 2015 Planning application submitted
- 18 November 2015 Planning permission refused
- 11 May 2016 Appeal lodged
- 5 December 2016 Planning permission granted
- 5 December 2016 Appeal granted
- 5 December 2019 Planning permission expired
Incidents on the register at this site
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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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