Planning application · Solar · Wealden
Bentley Estate
Operational5 MWApplication WD/2014/1245/MAJSubmitted 20 June 2014Granted on appeal 23 July 2015
The application
- Application number
- WD/2014/1245/MAJ
- Planning authority
- Wealden
- County or area
- East Sussex
- Nation
- England
- Technology
- Solar
- Capacity
- 5 MW
- Status
- Operational
- Operator or applicant
- Lightsource Renewable Energy
- Location
- BENTLEY ESTATE, UCKFIELD, EAST SUSSEX, TN22 5QP
- First operating
- 2015
Timeline
- 20 June 2014 Planning application submitted
- 28 August 2014 Planning permission refused
- 23 March 2015 Appeal lodged
- 23 July 2015 Planning permission granted
- 23 July 2015 Appeal granted
- 23 September 2015 Construction started
- 17 December 2015 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-1303, Solar panel inverter fault destroys two Lewes homes, 10 km from this site.
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| EIR-1303 | 2017 | Solar panel inverter fault destroys two Lewes homes | 10 km | Significant |
| EIR-1527 | 2023 | Fire affects solar panels on nursing home roof in Woodingdean | 17 km | Minor |
| EIR-1522 | 2026 | Fire damages roof with one solar panel in The Charltons | 18 km | Minor |
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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 Bentley Estate 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and the government planning database: every comparable incident, nearest first, with its sources; the schemes refused, withdrawn or taken to appeal within 40 km, your council first; and the fire service guidance each incident bears on.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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- UK grid-scale incidents, with NFCC notes
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