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Blaby Solar Farm
Blaby Solar Farm is operational in Oadby and Wigston with a recorded capacity of 3.5 MW, and has been generating since 2016-03-29.
Planning and build timeline
| Application submitted | 2015-08-07 |
| Permission granted | 2015-11-13 3 months after submission |
| Operational | 2016-03-29 5 months after consent |
What this site sits on
The recorded coordinate falls on land surveyed as Grade 3 agricultural land. The published survey does not split Grade 3 into 3a and 3b, so this alone does not settle whether the land counts as best and most versatile.
REPD gives one representative coordinate per scheme, not the site boundary, so this describes the point on record rather than the whole site — a large site can straddle a designation edge. Boundaries come from planning.data.gov.uk, which publishes for England only.
Oadby and Wigston’s record on solar
Oadby and Wigston has decided 5 solar farms and approved 100%, taking a median of 3.2 months. See every solar farm decision in Oadby and Wigston →
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|---|---|---|
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Newarke St Car Park - Solar Panels Solar Photovoltaics · Under Construction | — | 7.3 km |
A C Shropshire (Farm AD) Anaerobic Digestion · Operational | 2.5 | 7.6 km |
How big is Blaby Solar Farm?
Blaby Solar Farm has a recorded installed capacity of 3.5 MW. That figure is the capacity registered in REPD, which is the scheme as consented — the metered output of a site can differ.
Who operates Blaby Solar Farm?
REPD records the operator as Blaby Solar Farm. Ownership of built renewable assets changes hands regularly and REPD is published quarterly, so treat this as the operator of record rather than confirmation of who owns it today.
When was Blaby Solar Farm approved and built?
The application was submitted on 2015-08-07. Permission was granted on 2015-11-13, 3 months later. The site became operational on 2016-03-29, 5 months after consent.
Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0, plus planning designation boundaries from planning.data.gov.uk (England only). REPD is published quarterly and covers schemes of roughly 150 kW and above. Capacity is the installed capacity on record, not metered generation. Operator is the operator of record at the last extract, not confirmation of present ownership. Reference 5735.
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