Queensgate Foundation Primary School in East Cowes wants to take a green energy step forward — by installing solar panels. In new plans, Queensgate, located on Beatrice Avenue, could see 235 solar panels installed on its roof. The plans have come on behalf of the school, from Solar for Schools. The panels could have a generating capacity of 105 kilowatt peak (kWp) and be coated in antiglare. In planning documents submitted to the Isle of Wight Council, Solar for Schools says the proposed installation could “only enhance the school building and appeal of being a modern learning centre, looking towards the future and creating a vision of sustainability for students”. The panels could also help Queensgate in its ambition to maximise the potential of on-site zero-carbon electricity generation as part of its wider decarbonisation strategy, the company says. You can view the plans, 24/00302/14JPA, on the Isle of Wight Council’s planning register. Comments can be made until 9th April. The primary school, based on the site of the former Osborne Middle School, has in recent years been rebuilt.
SOLAR PANEL PLAN FOR EAST COWES’S QUEENGATE PRIMARY SCHOOL
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Wow, they need planning permission?
The savings will not cover the cost of the panels and their installation over the lifetime of the panels.
Yes it will.
“….the proposed installation could “only enhance the school building and appeal of being a modern learning centre,”
Solar panels on the roof of any building destroys what architectural merit the building might otherwise lay claim to. It is architectural vandalism.
It’s an f’ing school, get real mate.
So what? – mate. Is a school any the less visually important than any other building, public or private?
More climate tosh…..
Say that to the people in Ryde that are now being flooded every winter. Never happened 30 years ago.
or the people of Bonchurch and Ventnor
No brainer if you have the cash spare. Value of property goes up, electric bill goes down. Only an idiot would instead blow the money one a new car that will loose all it’s value in five years. Instead, get some solar.