🌬️ Onshore wind farm

Little Belhus Restoration Site
Essex

Recorded in WhichWindTurbine: 2 wind turbines in operation. Point the app at one of them to see its profile in real time.

2
turbines
1 MW
MW total
0.5 MW
per turbine
77 m
tip height

📍 2 turbines mapped — each dot is a turbine recorded in the database. Average position: 51.50588 N · 0.2556 E.

Little Belhus Restoration Site

2 turbines · operational · Essex

Wind farm facts

StatusOperational
County / regionEssex
Turbines2
Installed capacity1 MW
Turbine capacity0.5 MW
Tip height77 m
Operator (or applicant)Constantine Wind Energy
Turbine manufacturernot recorded
Turbine modelnot recorded
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♻️ Project timeline

Dated milestones from the UK Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Q2 2026 — not estimates.

→ ~2039201520202025today1234
  1. 1Nov 2013 — Application submitted
  2. 2May 2015 — Permission granted
  3. 3Jul 2016 — Under construction
  4. 4Sep 2016 — Operational

The register also records a planning permission expiry in May 2018, after construction had started: an administrative date with no effect on the wind farm, left off the axis.

DevelopmentConstructionOperationAhead (repowering horizon at 22 years)

From application to operation, this scheme took about 3 years.

Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0. REPD ref 3437.

What the register tells us

The application was determined in about 18 months. Construction to first power took about 2 months. A planning permission on this site expired in May 2018. The scheme has been operating for about 10 years. That works out at 0.5 MW per turbine on average.

Sources and dates

DataSourceExtract
Site, capacity, status, planning milestonesRenewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ, Open Government Licence v3)Q2 2026, published 03/08/2026
Turbine positionsOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)19/08/2026
Manufacturer and modelOpenStreetMap tags, unverified — REPD does not record turbine models. Known for 41 % of UK turbines (manufacturer) and 32 % (model); some values are propagated within a site and may be wrong.19/08/2026

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