Green Building Forum - Appalling solar PV installations Tue, 12 May 2026 05:05:17 +0100 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.0.3 Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102143#Comment_102143 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102143#Comment_102143 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:00:26 +0000 moulesnfrites
http://forum.housingenergyadvisor.com/solar-panels-pv/appalling-solar-pv-installations-part-1-t522.html]]> Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102147#Comment_102147 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102147#Comment_102147 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:25:07 +0000 DamonHD
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Damon]]> Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102148#Comment_102148 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102148#Comment_102148 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:52:33 +0000 djh
Basically it's a civil contract matter and government are quite right to keep out of it unless invited in. JMHO.]]> Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102153#Comment_102153 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102153#Comment_102153 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:15:40 +0000 billt
It's not very pretty and I wouldn't have let an installer get away with it myself, but if the panels are adequately fixed and the installation is otherwise satisfactory I don't see the problem. Perhaps MNF can enlighten us about the really serious fault?]]> Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102155#Comment_102155 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102155#Comment_102155 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:23:36 +0000 pmusgrove Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102156#Comment_102156 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102156#Comment_102156 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:25:52 +0000 jamesingram i was just thinking the same , if the fixing system is design correctly , windload etc. where is the problem ?
yes it looks a bodge , though

edit , good forum though , thanks for the link , will be useful
( hold on a minute, for some reason "aren't they the popular front of judea" comes to mind )]]> Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102165#Comment_102165 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102165#Comment_102165 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:46:17 +0000 bot de paille Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102211#Comment_102211 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102211#Comment_102211 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:01:10 +0000 owlman Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102218#Comment_102218 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102218#Comment_102218 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:28:17 +0000 bot de paille
This is a none story :)

http://www.astroman.com.pl/index.php?mod=magazine&a=read&id=811]]> Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102221#Comment_102221 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102221#Comment_102221 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:05:39 +0000 DamonHD
In my case we left a decent margin all round.

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so it would be a planning issue IMO, as well as possibly building control if the mounting system used / rafters aren't suitable for the additional stresses this would place on them.

very amateurish anyway]]> Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102237#Comment_102237 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102237#Comment_102237 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:13:07 +0000 CWatters
The building on the middle is Toesland Hall a listed building described as "one of the county's finest examples of 17th Century domestic architecture".

Appeal officer basically said any impact was only temporary because the turbines are only going be there for 25 years and that's a small fraction of the buildings 400 year life to date. Following that logic the older the building the lower the impact and the more suitable the location.]]> Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102251#Comment_102251 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102251#Comment_102251 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:46:50 +0000 fostertom Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102260#Comment_102260 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102260#Comment_102260 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:11:19 +0000 Gavin_A Posted By: CWattersVisual impact counts for very little these days unless in a conservation area (sometimes even in a conservation area).
well yes, this is probably true in many areas, I was just pointing out that the planning officer could have chosen to view it as being his job to step in, but opted not to, rather than it being something that was entirely outside of his remit.]]> Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102262#Comment_102262 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102262#Comment_102262 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:42:46 +0000 wookey Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102289#Comment_102289 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102289#Comment_102289 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:07:02 +0000 fostertom Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102292#Comment_102292 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102292#Comment_102292 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:15:31 +0000 jamesingram http://www.schueco.com/web/uk/architekten/solarstrom_und_waerme/products
http://www.schueco.com/web/uk/architekten/solarstrom_und_waerme/products/installation_systems/premium_line/in-roof_complete_roof]]> Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102301#Comment_102301 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102301#Comment_102301 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:14:38 +0000 CWatters Posted By: Gavin_A
Posted By: CWattersVisual impact counts for very little these days unless in a conservation area (sometimes even in a conservation area).

well yes, this is probably true in many areas, I was just pointing out that the planning officer could have chosen to view it as being his job to step in, but opted not to, rather than it being something that was entirely outside of his remit.

I doubt that's what happened. The planners may well believe it is wrong but have decided they don't have the manpower or budget to take marginal cases to appeal. They can't admit that obviously so have to declare it permitted development.

Some planning offices are so short of resources it appears they can't even read large and important planning application let alone analyse the content properly. I don't think people realise how overloaded they are. I know of a case where a planning application contained an enviromental impact assessment on a house that had been knocked down 10 years earlier. It wasn't spotted until the appeal hearing.]]> Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102378#Comment_102378 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102378#Comment_102378 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:39:02 +0000 Gavin_A Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102401#Comment_102401 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=102401#Comment_102401 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:11:47 +0000 evan
And who cares. "Worst installation of anything ever". What a load of whining ninnies.]]> Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=121788#Comment_121788 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=121788#Comment_121788 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:41:09 +0000 fostertom Appalling solar PV installations https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=122233#Comment_122233 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=6955&Focus=122233#Comment_122233 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:04:39 +0000 djh Posted By: fostertomExample of PVs apparently used as roof covering. Looks like the plan form must have been sized to create a roof size/shape that exactly fitted the PVs module.
I guess there's a degree of flexibility in determining the overhang of the roof, and also in the pitch of the roof. And there seems to be a bit in the middle that isn't covered,presumably for shading reasons. But it does indeed look like it was designed with the panels in mind.]]>