{"id":250345,"date":"2025-07-09T09:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250345\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:07:10","slug":"large-solar-farm-next-to-a1m-in-north-yorkshire-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250345\/","title":{"rendered":"Large solar farm next to A1(M) in North Yorkshire approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The proposed development would have a capacity of 39.3MW of energy and as set out in the accompanying planning statement, can produce enough clean, renewable energy to power approximately 120,000 homes,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She concluded the contribution made by the development attracts &#8220;substantial weight in favour&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The officer said Natural England had been consulted and had not raised any objections on the impact of two solar farms in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No harms were identified in relation to archaeology, highways, residential amenity and flood risk for the two parcels of land, either side of the A1(M), she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The scheme would connect directly into an existing substation near Skeeby, with the distribution network a &#8220;key factor&#8221; in the choice of location, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local Democracy Reporting Service.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following a meeting on Tuesday, members of North Yorkshire&#8217;s strategic planning committee approved the proposal, &#8220;subject to the completion of a maintenance plan to be agreed with the applicant and Planning Officers prior to the commencement of the development&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The proposed development would have a capacity of 39.3MW of energy and as set out in the accompanying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-250345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114822489308146089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}