Planning application · Solar · New Forest

Beckley Solar Farm

Operational1.7 MWApplication 12/98608Submitted 19 April 2012Granted 15 June 2012

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The application

Application number: 12/98608
Planning authority: New Forest
County or area: Hampshire
Nation: England
Technology: Solar
Capacity: 1.7 MW
Status: Operational
Operator or applicant: Anesco
Location: Beckley, Hinton, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23
First operating: 2012

Timeline

19 April 2012 Planning application submitted
15 June 2012 Planning permission granted
16 June 2012 Construction started
27 July 2012 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-1516, Solar panels suspected in house roof fire in Ferndown, 15 km from this site.

Reference	Year	Incident	From the site	Severity
EIR-1516	2025	Solar panels suspected in house roof fire in Ferndown	15 km	Significant
EIR-1532	2023	Roof-space fire involving a solar inverter at a house in Ferndown	16 km	Significant
EIR-1964	2022	Fire damages solar panels at Verwood farm during heatwave	19 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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Summary for this site

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In the full pack

What the planning evidence pack adds for this application

The pack is made for Beckley Solar Farm 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and the government planning database: every comparable incident, nearest first, with its sources; the schemes refused, withdrawn or taken to appeal within 40 km, your council first; and the fire service guidance each incident bears on.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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