AN utility to put in round 390 photo voltaic panels at a Lake District lodge has been submitted to the nationwide park authority.
The submission will see solar-absorbing gear added to the roofs of assorted buildings at Low Wooden Bay Resort and Spa, situated between Troutbeck Bridge and Ambleside.
A design and entry assertion submitted by Mason Gillibrand Architects in help of the applying states: “The location of the photo voltaic panels is designed to maximise the quantity of photo voltaic vitality collected, whereas decreasing the visible influence as a lot as potential. as potential.”
The assertion says that is achieved by inserting many of the panels both ‘on the east going through slope of the roof’ – away from the highway – or within the roof valleys.
“The one main exception to this premise is the 35-panel array situated on high of the Conference Constructing,” the assertion mentioned.
The assertion mentioned there was felt to be ‘minimal visible influence’ from this sequence as a result of peak of the roof and it being set again from the roadside.
