Planning application · Solar · Lisburn and Castlereagh
Ballinderry Road Solar Phase 1 (Lisburn)
Operational13.5 MWApplication S/2014/0492/FSubmitted 22 July 2014Granted 11 November 2014
The application
- Application number
- S/2014/0492/F
- Planning authority
- Lisburn and Castlereagh
- County or area
- Co. Antrim
- Nation
- Northern Ireland
- Technology
- Solar
- Capacity
- 13.5 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Hadstone Energy/Island Green Power
- Location
- Lands located 110m WNW of 29 Ballinderry Road, Lisburn, BT28 2SL
- First operating
- 2017
Timeline
- 22 July 2014 Planning application submitted
- 11 November 2014 Planning permission granted
- 1 June 2016 Construction started
- 20 February 2017 Operational
Preview of the planning evidence pack for this site
The pack for this site lists 89 comparable solar incidents in the United Kingdom, nearest first. The nearest is EIR-0752, Storm Darragh damages newly commissioned Anglesey solar farm panels, 179 km from this site.
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| EIR-0752 | 2024 | Storm Darragh damages newly commissioned Anglesey solar farm panels | 179 km | Significant |
| EIR-1400 | 2023 | Solar panel and battery fire at a bungalow on Anglesey | 181 km | Minor |
| EIR-2016 | 2022 | Solar panel fire evacuates Hawick High School | 234 km | Significant |
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The first 3 rows as the pack shows them. The other 86 are in the pack, each with its distance, sources and the fire service guidance it bears on.
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In the full packWhat the planning evidence pack adds for this application
The pack is made for Ballinderry Road Solar Phase 1 (Lisburn) from the register and the government planning database: every comparable incident, nearest first, with its sources; the schemes refused, withdrawn or taken to appeal within 40 km, your council first; and the fire service guidance each incident bears on. One fixed, dated file, as a PDF, a web page and a Word document.
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