SWEETBRIAR SOLAR FARM

Community Updates

  • 6th April 2022

    The application for Sweetbriar Solar Farm has now been validated. Click here for the planning documents and here to access the planning portal.

  • 15th February 2022

    We have now submitted our planning request to North Lincolnshire Council. We will provide an update with further details once they have validated our application.

  • 8th November 2021

    Thank you for your feedback, it has been really helpful.

    Our initial community consultation period has now come to an end, but we are still here. You can contact us using the following detials:

    -Email: sweetbriar@lightrockpower.com

    -Telephone: 0114 2866217

    -Write to us: Lightrock Power, Electric Works, 3 Concourse Way, Sheffield, S1 2BJ

  • 19th October 2021

    Thank you for engaging with us. We’ve received some really positive feedback and are looking forward to more conversations over the coming weeks.

    We’ve answered some of the questions that you’ve been asking here.

    There is still time to get in touch and let us know your views. You can email us here, complete our annonymous survey here, or phone us on 0114 286 6217.

SWEETBRIAR SOLAR FARM

This is the information hub for Sweetbriar Solar Farm – a project we are considering in your community.

We are in the early stages of development, but hope to have more detailed plans to share with you later in the year. We are aiming to submit a planning application in the late Autumn 2021.

Our plan is for this project to be a 40MW scheme with the potential to supply power to the equivalent of 12,000 homes, or over 15,000 electric vehicles. It could prevent more than 16,800 tonnes of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere every year.

Lightrock Power pay particular attention to biodiversity on our solar farms. At our Sweetbriar Farm site we plan to create valuable wildflower habitats for pollinators, enhance hedgerows and grassland for amphibians and reptiles, and protect existing trees for birds and bats. We’re delighted to have a corporate partnership with the RSPB, and also work with specialist organisations such as UK Wild Otter Trust, and The Barn Owl Trust. Working with these organisations really helps us optimise the ecological opportunities for local wildlife.

The below plan shows the area under consideration. Solar panels may be located within the shaded areas, but might not cover all of this land.

Please click the image below to open further location detail.

Area under consideration.

Area under consideration.

We’re currently in the very early stages of our timeline, so our design is still flexible. We’d love the local community to help shape the final project, so please get in touch with your ideas. You can contact us via email, or by filling in our online survey, or find answers to our most commonly asked questions here.

In the meantime further information can be found by visiting our online exhibition or clicking through the tabs at the top of this page.

We are here to listen, so if you have any questions please let us know.

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