Renewable sites › Milborne Port Solar Farm
Milborne Port Solar Farm
Milborne Port Solar Farm is an operational 4.2 MW solar farm in Somerset, generating since 25 June 2018. Planning permission was granted on 18 August 2016, 15 months after submission. Operator of record: Big 60 Million.
Planning and build timeline
| Application submitted | 18 May 2015 |
| Permission granted | 18 August 2016 15 months after submission |
| Operational | 25 June 2018 22 months after consent |
Screening a site of your own?
Somerset approves 86% 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 Milborne Port Solar Farm’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.
- Nutrient-neutrality catchment — Parrett Catchment
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.
Somerset’s record on solar
Somerset has decided 147 solar farms and approved 86%, taking a median of 3 months. See every solar farm decision in Somerset →
Other built sites within 15 km
| Site | MW | Distance |
|---|---|---|
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 5 | 1.9 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 5 | 5.1 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 3.5 | 7.8 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 5 | 8 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 1.5 | 8.2 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 17 | 8.2 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 5.4 | 8.8 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 5 | 10.7 km |
How big is Milborne Port Solar Farm?
Milborne Port Solar Farm has a recorded installed capacity of 4.2 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 Milborne Port Solar Farm?
REPD records the operator as Big 60 Million. 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 Milborne Port Solar Farm approved and built?
The application was submitted on 18 May 2015. Permission was granted on 18 August 2016, 15 months later. The site became operational on 25 June 2018, 22 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 5290.
Novarly Parcel · official public data, read properly · parcel.novarly.com
All sites · Screen your own site · Planning by council · Coal mining search by postcode