Guests seated under lit solar canopy benches on a terrace at dusk

Site impact

The site-owner benefits case, every input visible, every output modelled

Enter the venue's covers, tables, season length and opening hours. The platform returns trading hours unlocked, dwell and spend uplift, avoided groundworks, energy value, maintenance saved, ESG figures and payback on purchase versus lease. Nothing here is a verified fact.

Estimated

Venue inputs

Outdoor covers60 Outdoor tables8 Trading weeks per year34 weeksOpening hours per week72 hBenches installed5 Spend per extra trading hour per table9.50 GBP

Defaults come from the assumptions register. Spend per hour, dwell uplift and lighting hours are modelled figures flagged for replacement with measured pilot data.

Extra outdoor trading hours per year

Estimated

175 h

From dusk-to-dawn canopy lighting

Value of those trading hours

Estimated

£8,306

Trading hours x tables served x spend per hour

Dwell and spend uplift

Estimated

£2,466

17 minutes per charging session, 35% port utilisation

Avoided trenching and electrician

Estimated

£3,800

One-off: groundworks, cabling, outdoor sub-circuit

Energy self-supply value per year

Estimated

£952

3,200 kWh generated plus avoided standing charge

Maintenance saved per year

Estimated

£225

No annual re-treatment, no rot replacement

Capex to purchase

£18,250

5 x Classic 6 at list

Payback on purchase

Estimated

1.2 yrs

Net of avoided groundworks

Lease: net benefit per year

Estimated

£6,693

£438 per month over 48 months

ESG figures for the venue's reporting

Scope 2 self-supplied electricity

Estimated

3,200 kWh

On-site generation consumed on site

Scope 3: modules diverted from waste

Verified

10 modules

Panel count is arithmetic

CO2e avoided (embodied)

Estimated

2.50 tCO2e

Avoided manufacture of equivalent new modules; requires LCA verification

No records

The bigger economic picture

A model with visible inputs, not a statement of fact

The hospitality argument is simple: a network of venues where every seat charges your phone pulls discretionary spend back to the high street. The figures below scale your inputs across a twelve-venue high street. They are modelled, they move when you move the sliders, and they are not a claim about GDP.

Venues in a fully covered high street

Value: 12 venues
Confidence: Estimated
Arithmetic and assumptions: Cluster model: contiguous mesh needs roughly one node every 150 m

Extra trading hours across that high street per year

Value: 2,098 hours
Confidence: Estimated
Arithmetic and assumptions: Per-venue trading hours x 12 venues

Modelled additional discretionary spend retained

Value: £129,265
Confidence: Estimated
Arithmetic and assumptions: Trading-hour and dwell uplift x 12 venues, at the spend per head you entered

Reclaimed modules diverted from waste

Value: 120 modules
Confidence: Estimated
Arithmetic and assumptions: Panels per bench x benches x 12 venues

Generation on land already in use

Value: 38,400 kWh/yr
Confidence: Estimated
Arithmetic and assumptions: Modelled yield x 12 venues

Jobs supported per 1,000 benches produced and installed

Value: 14 FTE
Confidence: Estimated
Arithmetic and assumptions: Moulding, assembly, install and service labour per unit, extrapolated

Modelled outcome	Value	Confidence	Arithmetic and assumptions
Venues in a fully covered high street	12 venues	Estimated	Cluster model: contiguous mesh needs roughly one node every 150 m
Extra trading hours across that high street per year	2,098 hours	Estimated	Per-venue trading hours x 12 venues
Modelled additional discretionary spend retained	£129,265	Estimated	Trading-hour and dwell uplift x 12 venues, at the spend per head you entered
Reclaimed modules diverted from waste	120 modules	Estimated	Panels per bench x benches x 12 venues
Generation on land already in use	38,400 kWh/yr	Estimated	Modelled yield x 12 venues
Jobs supported per 1,000 benches produced and installed	14 FTE	Estimated	Moulding, assembly, install and service labour per unit, extrapolated

Impact beyond the site

Waste diverted, growers paid, jobs created, 10% pledged

Trees diverted per bench

Estimated

Discarded Christmas tree poles machined into slats

Grower disposal cost halved

Estimated

50%

We collect cannabis and hemp stalk at half what farmers pay to dispose of it

Profit pledged to communities

Verified

10%

Social care, housing and a farmer support fund in supplying districts

Jobs per 1,000 benches

Estimated

Direct Manchester manufacturing roles, before the 1.6x multiplier

A bench does more than pay back on one terrace. It takes two waste streams out of the ground, pays growers for material they currently pay to destroy, creates skilled and entry-level work in Greater Manchester, and returns a tenth of the profit to the communities that supplied it.

Circular materials and the 10% pledge Manchester jobs, tax and GDP

Specified impact parameters

Carbon avoided per bench and the dwell and spend effect at a served site, with the calculation behind each.

Carbon avoided per bench

Value in use: 312 kg CO2e per bench: 84 kg per reused 350 W module across four modules, minus process energy, plus 1.9 kg CO2e per kg on 26 kg of diverted plastic
Method: Screening calculation against the first bill of materials using published embodied-carbon factors for crystalline silicon modules and virgin polyolefin, net of grid electricity used in processing.
If it moves: Halving the module credit still leaves 144 kg CO2e per bench, which keeps the social-value claim intact.

Dwell and spend effect at a served site

Value in use: Plus 11 minutes mean dwell in served outdoor seating, plus 1.80 GBP mean spend per seated group, 42 extra trading evenings a year from canopy lighting
Method: Derived from the trading-hours model: lighting extends usable forecourt seating past sunset from October to March, and spend uplift is set at one third of the published hospitality average per extra seated quarter hour.
If it moves: Even at half the uplift, a two-bench forecourt returns the annual hire cost inside the first season.

Parameter	Value in use	Method	If it moves
Carbon avoided per bench	312 kg CO2e per bench: 84 kg per reused 350 W module across four modules, minus process energy, plus 1.9 kg CO2e per kg on 26 kg of diverted plastic	Screening calculation against the first bill of materials using published embodied-carbon factors for crystalline silicon modules and virgin polyolefin, net of grid electricity used in processing.	Halving the module credit still leaves 144 kg CO2e per bench, which keeps the social-value claim intact.
Dwell and spend effect at a served site	Plus 11 minutes mean dwell in served outdoor seating, plus 1.80 GBP mean spend per seated group, 42 extra trading evenings a year from canopy lighting	Derived from the trading-hours model: lighting extends usable forecourt seating past sunset from October to March, and spend uplift is set at one third of the published hospitality average per extra seated quarter hour.	Even at half the uplift, a two-bench forecourt returns the annual hire cost inside the first season.

Modelled