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St Margaret's Farm - Green Waste Composting Facility
St Margaret's Farm - Green Waste Composting Facility is a biomass plant under construction in Dartford. Planning permission was granted on 19 March 2020, 4 months after submission. Operator of record: South Darenth Farms & Cold Store Company Limited.
Planning and build timeline
| Application submitted | 14 November 2019 |
| Permission granted | 19 March 2020 4 months after submission |
| Operational | not recorded |
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What this site sits on
The recorded coordinate falls on land surveyed as Grade 2 agricultural land.
- Green Belt — Dartford
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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Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 4 | 9.1 km |
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How big is St Margaret's Farm - Green Waste Composting Facility?
REPD does not record an installed capacity for St Margaret's Farm - Green Waste Composting Facility.
Who operates St Margaret's Farm - Green Waste Composting Facility?
REPD records the operator as South Darenth Farms & Cold Store Company 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 St Margaret's Farm - Green Waste Composting Facility approved and built?
The application was submitted on 14 November 2019. Permission was granted on 19 March 2020, 4 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 10216.
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