Onshore wind · United Kingdom
Swinford Wind Farm
Operational22 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 7 December 2012
The site
- Technology
- Onshore wind
- Capacity
- 22 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Nuon UK
- Location
- Lutterworth Road, Swinford, Lutterworth, Leicestershire. LE17 6BA, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Harborough
- Planning application
- 08/00506/FUL
- Appeal reference
- 09/00011/NONDET
- First operating
- 2012
- Turbines
- 11
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Timeline
- 9 April 2008 Planning application submitted
- 1 September 2009 Planning permission refused
- 30 December 2009 Planning permission granted
- 30 December 2009 Appeal granted
- 1 December 2011 Construction started
- 21 November 2012 Operational
Incidents on the register at this site
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Incidents at onshore wind farms in the United Kingdom
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.
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