Solar · United Kingdom
Yellowham solar park
Appeal Refused20 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 4 August 2015
The site
- Technology
- Solar
- Capacity
- 20 MW
- Status
- Appeal Refused
- Operator or applicant
- Wessex Solar Energy
- Location
- Higher Kingston Farm, Higher Kingston Farm Lane, Stinsford, Dorchester, Dorset, Dorset, DT2 8QE, United Kingdom
- Planning authority
- Dorset
- Planning application
- WD/D/14/001496
- Appeal reference
- APP/F1230/W/14/3001896
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Timeline
- 12 June 2014 Planning application submitted
- 7 November 2014 Planning permission refused
- 30 January 2015 Appeal lodged
- 30 June 2015 Appeal refused
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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