Solar · United Kingdom
The Down House
Abandoned5 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 26 October 2018
The site
- Technology
- Solar
- Capacity
- 5 MW
- Status
- Abandoned
- Operator or applicant
- British Solar Renewables
- Location
- Land At E 385926 104812, Down House Estate, Blandford St. Mary, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 9AD, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Dorset
- Planning application
- 2/2015/1129/PAEIA
- Appeal reference
- APP/N1215/W/16/3154739
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Timeline
- 16 September 2015 Planning application submitted
- 19 January 2016 Planning permission refused
- 7 October 2016 Appeal lodged
- 31 March 2017 Planning permission granted
- 31 March 2017 Appeal granted
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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