Plans for Swansea Council's first ever solar farm have been unanimously approved. A total of 5,500 panels will be installed on 11 hectares of land at the former Tir John landfill site, Port Tennant. Electricity generated by them will help power a wastewater treatment works a mile away.
The three-megawatt development will occupy a third of Tir John, which stopped accepting black bag waste last year. This section of the site has been capped and grassed over. You can get more Swansea news and other story updates by subscribing to our newsletters here.
Councillors on the authority's planning committee asked if local residents would benefit directly from the solar farm, and were told by a planning officer that they wouldn't. But he said the electricity sold to Welsh Water for use at its treatment works at Crymlyn Burrows, across Fabian Way, would bring in a source of council revenue.
