Hi Gus, I think you would need to go to the Local Authority website and there should be the info under the planning portal pages. There are usually loads of pages of info supporting each planning application.
Also we have to remember that the Tories slipped in some new legislation to make it easier to refuse PP based on local objections, dressed up in some local accountability bollocks, the swivel eyes loved that.
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Solar farm plans refused at highest rate for five years in Great Britain
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Re: Solar farm plans refused at highest rate for five years in Great Britain
Thanks desp, you would have thought that whoever bothered to make it a news story would have filled in a few ______ to make it "factual" dare I say, though
As is its about as much value as an overpriced Woolworths pick & mix ever was.
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Re: Solar farm plans refused at highest rate for five years in Great Britain
Planning is a mire of conflicting information, unenforced policies, dirty dealing topped with a tremendous amount of personal influence. When starting out to get planning consent for a house I was told I'd best use a (very expensive) local planning consultant. I asked why and was told that he knew all the palms to grease and without him things would be a lot harder. I (very naively) mentioned that planning law (which I'd already read) has a presumption that consent will be granted unless there is a valid reason for refusal.
The planning officer chuckled at that and told me they could always find a reason to refuse, and that the law was meaningless in practice. There followed a three year battle to get consent that probably took five years off my life. Never underestimate the ability of seemingly normal people to behave viciously and irrationally when they just don't like the idea of something. These people never let facts get in the way of their prejudices, either. I had one PITA objector whose primary reason for objecting was because I was "too young", believe it or not. The average age around here is probably over 70, and he did not want people in their 50's moving in.
The planning officer chuckled at that and told me they could always find a reason to refuse, and that the law was meaningless in practice. There followed a three year battle to get consent that probably took five years off my life. Never underestimate the ability of seemingly normal people to behave viciously and irrationally when they just don't like the idea of something. These people never let facts get in the way of their prejudices, either. I had one PITA objector whose primary reason for objecting was because I was "too young", believe it or not. The average age around here is probably over 70, and he did not want people in their 50's moving in.
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Re: Solar farm plans refused at highest rate for five years in Great Britain
Not great news, but perhaps (I'm clutching at straws here) the increase in refusals is in line with an increase in applications?
Maybe time for the Gov to put a small amount of support towards demand side PV again, although I suppose the VAT rate is a reasonable form of support.
Maybe time for the Gov to put a small amount of support towards demand side PV again, although I suppose the VAT rate is a reasonable form of support.
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Re: Solar farm plans refused at highest rate for five years in Great Britain
Some of you may know about here in France our application for a 9.6kW solar panel array is still ongoing.
Yesterday we received a legal doc from the regional council, had to sign for it, that stated that the authorities need another Month to deal with our application as its not straight forward application under the present rules that are in force.
This recent letter/doc states that as our Array will be at 3.2m high at its highest point of construction and its in our field/garden 8.6 acres, it requires another body to examine our presented documents.
As some of you know that we applied for this array at a starting hight from the ground of 1.1meters, so that our sheep would still graze and maintain the land underneath, ie the land would still be used for agricultural use.
So with a 1.1m clearance hight, a total hight of 3.2 meters was applied for. However, this 3.2m is to high for a normal process of planning application.
Now the funny thing is, that at this present time NO ONE can object to our Array if the total hight does not exceed 1.8m in hight.
So if they say NO to our present application, i will split the array into 2 lines each with 12off panels on them and these 2 arrays will not exceed 1.8m in hight.
Funny isn’t it, that amending the hight to suit the Paperwork pushers present regulations, the land underneath will not be possible for our sheep to graze underneath.
The word shooting themselves in the FOOT come to mind.
Save the planet, they say allow PV, use the agricultural Land etc etc.
As usual we are upsetting the Officialdom apple cart. hahahaha.
Local councils see what we are doing and support us, local officials are on our side, but but but.
So yea funny really, couldn’t make this up.
I will let you know what happens, if we are refused there are lots of French activists awaiting to use our case at the politic folk to show how they don’t really have an integrated green energy program and just listen to the big commercial folk. And in France one thing the general population hate is being told to do something when it goes against logic.
Yesterday we received a legal doc from the regional council, had to sign for it, that stated that the authorities need another Month to deal with our application as its not straight forward application under the present rules that are in force.
This recent letter/doc states that as our Array will be at 3.2m high at its highest point of construction and its in our field/garden 8.6 acres, it requires another body to examine our presented documents.
As some of you know that we applied for this array at a starting hight from the ground of 1.1meters, so that our sheep would still graze and maintain the land underneath, ie the land would still be used for agricultural use.
So with a 1.1m clearance hight, a total hight of 3.2 meters was applied for. However, this 3.2m is to high for a normal process of planning application.
Now the funny thing is, that at this present time NO ONE can object to our Array if the total hight does not exceed 1.8m in hight.
So if they say NO to our present application, i will split the array into 2 lines each with 12off panels on them and these 2 arrays will not exceed 1.8m in hight.
Funny isn’t it, that amending the hight to suit the Paperwork pushers present regulations, the land underneath will not be possible for our sheep to graze underneath.
The word shooting themselves in the FOOT come to mind.
Save the planet, they say allow PV, use the agricultural Land etc etc.
As usual we are upsetting the Officialdom apple cart. hahahaha.
Local councils see what we are doing and support us, local officials are on our side, but but but.
So yea funny really, couldn’t make this up.
I will let you know what happens, if we are refused there are lots of French activists awaiting to use our case at the politic folk to show how they don’t really have an integrated green energy program and just listen to the big commercial folk. And in France one thing the general population hate is being told to do something when it goes against logic.