Renewable sites › Dolmans Hill (Redbridge Farm) Solar Arrays
Dolmans Hill (Redbridge Farm) Solar Arrays
Dolmans Hill (Redbridge Farm) Solar Arrays is an operational 5 MW solar farm in Dorset, generating since 3 January 2014. Planning permission was granted on 8 November 2012, 7 months after submission. Operator of record: Emotion Energy (Bournemouth) Limited.
Planning and build timeline
| Application submitted | 2 April 2012 |
| Permission granted | 8 November 2012 7 months after submission |
| Operational | 3 January 2014 14 months after consent |
Screening a site of your own?
Dorset approves 95% of solar farms. Redline puts that number, and everything else the record holds, against your own boundary: the authority’s actual approval rate and decision times, every designation inside the red line, agricultural grade, 1 m LIDAR earthworks, how contested the grid is, and yield with a P90 — before you spend on a consultant.
Arrives prefilled with Dolmans Hill (Redbridge Farm) Solar Arrays’s recorded coordinate — swap in your own postcode or coordinates.
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.
- Green Belt — Dorset
- Nutrient-neutrality catchment — Poole Harbour SPA/Ramsar
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.
Dorset’s record on solar
Dorset has decided 97 solar farms and approved 95%, taking a median of 3.7 months. See every solar farm decision in Dorset →
Other built sites within 15 km
| Site | MW | Distance |
|---|---|---|
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 3 | 0.8 km |
Battery · Operational | 0.3 | 1.3 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 11.3 | 1.7 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 6.1 | 3 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 3.9 | 4.7 km |
Landfill Gas · Operational | 3 | 5.2 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 5 | 5.8 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 10 | 6.1 km |
How big is Dolmans Hill (Redbridge Farm) Solar Arrays?
Dolmans Hill (Redbridge Farm) Solar Arrays has a recorded installed capacity of 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 Dolmans Hill (Redbridge Farm) Solar Arrays?
REPD records the operator as Emotion Energy (Bournemouth) Limited. 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 Dolmans Hill (Redbridge Farm) Solar Arrays approved and built?
The application was submitted on 2 April 2012. Permission was granted on 8 November 2012, 7 months later. The site became operational on 3 January 2014, 14 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 1589.
Novarly Parcel · official public data, read properly · parcel.novarly.com
All sites · Screen your own site · Planning by council · Coal mining search by postcode