Primary school's plans to install roof solar panels

Westoe Crown Primary School is looking to install 443 solar panels.

- by Chris Binding

Plans to install hundreds of solar panels at a South Shields primary school site have been submitted to council development chiefs.

South Tyneside Council's planning department has received an application for Westoe Crown Primary School at Sea Winnings Way in the Horsley Hill ward.

The school is seeking permission for “around 443 solar photovoltaic panels on the pitched roofs, with a total generation capacity of about 200kWp”.

A design and access statement submitted to council planning officials notes the development would “help the school in its ambition to maximise on the potential of onsite for zero-carbon electricity generation as part of its wider decarbonisation strategy”.