A decision on plans for a battery energy storage system (BESS) has been postponed after fire safety concerns were raised.
The BESS would be built on a field south of Barfields Lane near Reepham, about three miles (4.8km) from Lincoln, next to an oil production facility. Worries about fire safety were raised with one councillor saying it could lead to a "major disaster".
Plans for a vast solar farm have prompted residents from three villages to take action in a bid to prevent the ancient parishes from being ‘engulfed’.
One Earth Solar Farm, which is in the early stages of planning, is a proposed solar farm with associated battery storage, on land surrounding North Clifton, South Clifton, Fledborough and Ragnall.
Productive farmland is targeted by solar developers, leaving farmers like Andrew Dakin with little say. "Our old way of life will be gone forever. And I've worked on this farm all my life, seven days a week. I've not been on holiday since I was 15. Not because I didn't want to, but I like being here on the farm."
Buckinghamshire villagers have slammed plans for a “devastating” battery energy storage system (BESS) with 888 shipping containers.
More than 200 people have objected to Statera Energy Limited’s proposals to build the 33-hectare site on fields at Rookery Farm off Hogshaw Road in between Granborough and East Claydon.
A battery safety plan for what is set to be the UK’s biggest solar farm has been rejected. Councillors voted down the proposals after almost four hours of debate and despite warnings of a “high risk there will be costs” to the council for rejecting them. The safety plan has faced intense local opposition, with more than 100 Swale residents writing in to the council to criticise the proposals.
Campaigners have said their "fight is not over" after a plan for a solar farm near Horncastle was quashed. Push Energy's proposals for land adjacent to Sotby Woods on Sturton Road, in Hatton, were approved by East Lindsey District Council last year.
But people living in the area fiercely opposed it and, following a judicial review, a High Court judge said the council's approval was "unlawful".
The government has delayed a decision on a controversial £600m solar farm for a third time.
The proposed Sunnica Energy Farm on the Suffolk-Cambridgeshire border would span about 2,500 acres across both counties. Claire Coutinho, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, set a new decision deadline "of no later than 11 April 2024".
Campaigners are celebrating after a High Court judge said a council's approval of plans for a solar farm was unlawful. Approved by Durham County Council, Lightsource bp's contentious plans to transform a 92-hectare site near Burnhope into a huge solar farm are fiercely opposed by residents.
A solar farm the size of about 33 football pitches has been given the go-ahead on green belt farmland despite being rejected by councillors.
Shropshire Council had declined planning permission for the site off Hall Lane, Kemberton, near Telford.
Plans for a large solar farm that would have powered 7,650 homes in Coventry have been rejected after opposition from residents.
More than 60,000 solar panels would have been installed on greenbelt farmland in the north of the city as part of the proposals.
An application for battery storage units at the UK's biggest solar farm has been refused.
Cleve Hill Solar Park, at Graveney, in Kent, was given government approval in May 2020. The plans require a 150-megawatt battery facility over 25 acres to store energy generated by 880,000 solar panels.
A 150MW battery energy storage system (BESS), to be deployed along with 373MW of solar PV as part of the Cleve Hill Solar Park project, has reportedly been rejected by the local planning authority in the UK.
Plans for a large solar farm in North Yorkshire have been rejected following hundreds of objections.
If given the go-ahead, the development, near Malton, would have provided energy for 8,660 homes, Harmony Energy said.
The application on a site near Gotham and East Leake was discussed at a Rushcliffe Borough Council planning meeting today Thursday 9 March. The proposals for the solar farm were voted on in today’s meeting:
The vote was a unanimous refusal.
Loss of good agricultural land, the impact on landscape and prized walking areas, a defence of the democratic process, and a perceived loss of house price value are among the reasons opponents give to such renewable energy schemes.