The company fitting them will hopefully know the regs
has anyone managed to get solar installed in a conservation area - we have to apply for planning permissions apparently as we have an article 4 on our road (no no permitted development at all)
we might have done a couple of things so donât want to attract attention, but if its an easy process and they work off photos or whatever I would like to look at sorting my water heating through solar
Nope.
Nobody in our village can get âem due to AOONB reasons. 2 miles away is a massive Solar Farm, but itâs off a back road in a valley.
Weâre next door to a conservation area, Ironbridge. They cannot have panels.
As I understand it it depends on the rules in your particular conservation area. If youâve got an Article 4 direction saying you canât then, well, you canât.
As far as Iâm aware there are no Article 4 directions for the conservation area I live in, so the previous owner of the house re-clad half the roof using modern concrete tiles and inserted Velux windows too and the council wasnât fussed at all about that. We then changed the front door and windows and they didnât care about that either. I expect they wouldnât mind if I wanted to put solar on the rear roof (thatâs the bit that faces south) but just because it would be OK for me wouldnât influence whether it was OK for you, Iâm afraid.
Article 4 just says permission for everything, lots in the street have put in upvc look alike sashes and seem to have got away with it but no solar as yet so perhaps I will wait until a brave soul gives it a try
will the panels be facing or visible from the street?
nope - we border 2 street but panels would be on the back (more sun there) so not seen from either
Seems like an argument to grant planning permission then.
If they wonât be seen you could just fit them and claim they were already there when you moved in 
Interesting idea if not cheaper than Go/Intelligent for battery filling, they have the overnight period at a different time to Go.
They donât mention the Fit rate in that link?
I was talking to Octopus last week. Given we will have decent generation but a lecky car is unlikely for us in the short/medium term, they recommended Flux.
Presumably you add in a standard outgoing tariff.
Excellent!
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Neat job
Needs a sub
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Did they fit a smoke alarm as well just to be safe?
No, but Iâll probably fit a rising-rate heat detector. 
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Good plan
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A lovely sunny day yesterday so the 15kw battery was full by 3pm.
After the cold night and the heat pump usage this morning, the battery is now at 5%, but sunny again, so the panels are already producing 1.1kw.
Pleased so far 
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