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Metrocentre Green Car Park, St Michaels Way - Photovoltaic Equipment
Metrocentre Green Car Park, St Michaels Way - Photovoltaic Equipment is a solar farm under construction in Gateshead. Planning permission was granted on 9 January 2023, 13 months after submission. Operator of record: The Metrocentre Partnership.
Planning and build timeline
| Application submitted | 7 December 2021 |
| Permission granted | 9 January 2023 13 months after submission |
| Operational | not recorded |
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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.
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Other built sites within 15 km
| Site | MW | Distance |
|---|---|---|
Solar Photovoltaics · Under Construction | 0.53 | 2.7 km |
Landfill Gas · Operational | 1 | 4 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | — | 4.2 km |
Landfill Gas · Operational | 1.5 | 5.8 km |
Landfill Gas · Operational | 3.8 | 5.8 km |
Landfill Gas · Operational | 2.3 | 7.1 km |
Landfill Gas · Operational | 2 | 8.7 km |
Landfill Gas · Operational | 2 | 8.8 km |
How big is Metrocentre Green Car Park, St Michaels Way - Photovoltaic Equipment?
REPD does not record an installed capacity for Metrocentre Green Car Park, St Michaels Way - Photovoltaic Equipment.
Who operates Metrocentre Green Car Park, St Michaels Way - Photovoltaic Equipment?
REPD records the operator as The Metrocentre Partnership. 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 Metrocentre Green Car Park, St Michaels Way - Photovoltaic Equipment approved and built?
The application was submitted on 7 December 2021. Permission was granted on 9 January 2023, 13 months later. The site is recorded as under construction and has no operational date yet.
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 12075.
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