Commercial solar installers in Worksop

Key facts

Where businesses are in Worksop

• Manton Wood Enterprise Park: Business park on the former Manton Colliery site off Retford Road, south of the railway, with several large industrial and storage units. Greencore's sandwich factory is here.
• Manton Wood Distribution Park: A 63 acre site on the south side of Worksop with a new junction onto the A57, about 1.5 miles from the A1. 25 acres have outline permission for up to 1,000,000 sq ft of employment use.
• Claylands Industrial Estate: Established industrial estate on Claylands Avenue, next to the A57 and Gateford Road and the Gateford residential area.

Large employers and sectors with sites here include:

• Food manufacturing (Greencore): Greencore's Manton Wood site makes sandwiches and wraps for major retailers, convenience stores and discounters, and employs about 1,700 people.
• Logistics: Manton Wood Distribution Park can take a single building of up to 1 million sq ft for manufacturing or logistics, about 11 miles from the M1.

Large, simple roofs on distribution sheds and modern industrial units are usually the quickest and cheapest to fit. Older mill, factory and workshop buildings can work well too, but often need a structural survey first, and roofs from before 2000 may contain asbestos cement: see asbestos roofs.

Grid connection

Worksop is served by National Grid Electricity Distribution (East Midlands). Almost every commercial system needs G99 approval from the network operator before it is switched on, and the question is usually how much the local network can take back. Where export is limited, a G100 export limitation scheme can let a larger array connect. See G99 and DNO applications.

Planning in Worksop

Worksop follows the national planning rules for England, decided by Bassetlaw council. Rooftop solar on most non-domestic buildings is permitted development, within height and edge limits, and systems above 50 kW need a prior approval application covering design and glare.

Points that come up locally:

• The Worksop Conservation Area, enlarged and designated in its current form on 16 June 2010, covers about 0.65 square kilometres and over 1,000 buildings, and contains over 60 listed buildings, the second highest of any conservation area in Bassetlaw.

Our guides on listed buildings and conservation areas explain what these mean for a solar project.

What a business roof in Worksop could generate

Modelled with PVGIS for the town centre, a south-facing roof at 30 degrees produces about 974 kWh per kWp a year.

Illustrative, not a quote: the same sums as our commercial solar calculator. A company paying corporation tax can usually shorten the payback with capital allowances.

Funding and support

We found no council or regional grant for business solar open in Worksop at the time of writing (November 2026). National reliefs still apply, such as capital allowances and, in England, the business rates exemption for onsite renewables: see grants and reliefs in England.

Solar across Bassetlaw

At the end of 2025, Bassetlaw had 6,047 solar PV installations with 200.9 MW of capacity, up 52% since 2020, according to government figures. The Bassetlaw page has the full local figures and how they compare.

Nearby towns

• Retford, about 7 miles away
• Mansfield, about 11 miles away
• Rotherham, about 13 miles away
• Chesterfield, about 14 miles away

Sources

• en.wikipedia.org: List of ONS built up areas in England
• bassetlaw.gov.uk: bsworksop
• invest.southyorkshire-ca.gov.uk: manton wood distribution park
• careers.greencore.com: nottinghamshire
• data.bassetlaw.gov.uk: worksopcaaapril2011revised
• Yield: PVGIS 5.3 (European Commission Joint Research Centre), SARAH3 data, 14% system losses, for the town centre, modelled 4 November 2026.
• Council area figures: DESNZ, renewable electricity by local authority 2014 to 2025.