Solar planning in Wrexham: panels, conservation areas and permission
Solar panels in Wrexham: the planning rules, the council's conservation areas and how to check an address.
Wrexham County Borough Council is the planning authority for Wrexham among the towns we cover. Whether panels on a house there need the council’s permission comes down to two things: the national rules for Wales, and whether the house sits in one of the council’s conservation areas or is listed.
Solar planning in Wrexham: the rules that apply
Wrexham is in Wales, where planning is devolved and England’s August 2026 changes do not apply. Welsh Government guidance is that panels on a wall or pitched roof should project no more than 200mm from the surface, and that a flat-roof array may not sit within 1 metre of the roof’s outside edge or stand more than 1 metre above the plane of the roof. In a conservation area, panels on a principal or side wall seen from the highway need consent, and Cadw’s Cof Cymru record shows whether a house is listed.
Conservation areas in Wrexham
There are currently 23 designated conservation areas within the County Borough.
The areas the council lists, including those named after the towns we cover, are:
- Wrexham Town Centre
- Fairy Road (Wrexham)
- Grosvenor Road (Wrexham)
- Salisbury Park (Wrexham)
- Bangor on Dee
- Bersham
- Cefn Mawr
- Chirk
- Erbistock
- Gresford
- Hanmer
- Hightown Barracks
- Holt
- Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog
- Marchwiel
- Marford
- Minera
- Overton
- Pen-y-Cae
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
- Rossett
- Ruabon
- Worthenbury
Checking an address: Each area has its own page with a map and a Character Assessment and Management Plan. Read it on Wrexham County Borough Council’s conservation-area page.
Each town we cover in Wrexham has its own pages for solar panels in Wrexham, with that town’s own PVGIS figures, network and conservation areas.
The network side
Planning is one form; the network operator is another. The towns here are on SP Manweb, and every system is notified to the operator under G98 or, for larger systems, G99. Our guide to the G99 application covers it, the Cheshire page sets out the networks town by town, and the UK-wide rules are in our guide to whether solar panels need planning permission.
A car charger has planning rules of its own, which change in England on 21 October 2026: EV charging in Wrexham sets them out with the council’s plug-in car and public charger figures.
If your house is listed, in a conservation area, or has a flat roof, tell us on the first call. It changes the design and sometimes the order things happen in, but rarely whether solar works.