Halifax: Solar panels to be installed at Eureka! museum

The plans were approved by Calderdale Council

More than 500 solar panels are to be installed at a West Yorkshire museum after a planning application was approved.

Eureka! the National Children's Museum, in Halifax, wants to install 581 solar panels on the roof of its building in Discovery Road.

Calderdale Council approved the application at a meeting on Friday after no objections were received.

It said the proposals would help improve sustainability.

Conservation area

The panels are to be installed on the roof of the purpose-built museum, situated close to the Grade II listed 1855 Halifax Railway Station and located within Halifax Town Centre Conservation Area, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.

According to council documents, conservation officers said despite its location the effect on the setting of the listed building would be "minimal", adding that there was a public benefit to their introduction.

The museum was opened by the then Prince of Wales, now King Charles, in 1992, who was a patron until 2002.