legality's of solar panels UK?

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I am currently 16 and live in wales with my parents on a 16 acre farm.
Currently we have no power other than 2x 250w solar panels I have on top of my lorry, i have been told that having them on a farm shed is not possible without paying rates which we dont want to do, is there anything that stops us from just making a frame and putting them on the ground or any other better method you can suggest.
 
is there anything that stops us from just making a frame and putting them on the ground or any other better method you can suggest.

Shortly I will be relocating to South Wales, as such I have been looking at the legality of installations myself.
First port of call should be to call your local planning authority and inquire if you are even required to submit a planning application based on your land arrangements. The rules may not even apply to your situation and you could then go ahed and make your installation.
Itlooks like you could go the ground based frame route but for a single panel. The question is, is it one panel on the property? Or is it one panel contained to its own charge controller, battery bank ECT ECT?. This is obviously in an effort to avoid being subject to the rates for permanent installations if they do apply to you. Again local planning will know exactly what you can and cannot do without making an application thus being ultimatey
Subject to the rates.
 
I to am interested in this, i want to make a little shelter over my BBQ so i can have more BBQ's while its raiing, and want to use a couple of solar panels as the top.

Interestingly i have just come back from the bvi where we installed a massive array of solar panels on a custom built car port. no permissions needed there.

edit: after some googling, for my purposes i can make a "Porch" https://interactive.planningportal.co.uk/mini-guide/porches/1

as long as i stick to those limits should be fine :)
 
If you adhere to those parameters you would be having your BBQ in the doorway. Since it specifies a porch, probably not ideal.

Let's be honest here, if you are putting it on a shed. Maybe some similar structure largely out of sight of the public eye, then you'll receive no complaints from miserable members of the public thus being left to your own devices. Regardless of rules and regs.

Legally it's still restrictive.
 
You do not need planning permission for solar panels in the UK, I have them on my garage roof
 
Planning required for ground mount, no planning for roof mount - stick them on a roof, any old roof will do... I'm in rural dorset, 10 acres, no power either...
 
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