← Back to Greater Manchester

Energy sites / United Kingdom / Greater Manchester

Solar · United Kingdom

WWL Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation, The Avenue - Solar Panels

Awaiting Construction0.7 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 27 April 2026

Technology
Solar
Capacity
0.7 MW
Status
Awaiting Construction (Planning Permission Granted)
Operator or applicant
Dalkia Energy Services Limited
Location
Wrightington, Wigan And Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Leigh Infirmary The Avenue, Greater Manchester, WN7 1HS, United Kingdom
Planning authority
Wigan
Planning application
A/25/100130/14PDJ

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

  • 18 December 2025 Planning application submitted
  • 17 February 2026 Planning permission granted
  • 17 February 2031 Planning permission expired

None found. The register holds no published incident that names WWL Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation, The Avenue - Solar Panels. If you know of one, report it (confidential reports are anonymised).

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.

What fails at solar farms · All solar farms incidents

Preparing, reviewing or responding to a planning application for a site like this? The planning evidence pack sets out every comparable incident for one project, with sources. £295, by email in minutes.

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.