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Allowed2 December 20223302716

Land East of Mursley Road, Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire, MK17 0PG

Planning appeal 3302716 at Land East of Mursley Road, Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire, MK17 0PG (Buckinghamshire Council - Aylesbury Area *) was allowed on 2 December 2022 by Inspector Thomas G, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: the landscape and visual impacts of the appeal scheme.

Ground mounted solar farm, ancillary infrastructure and associated works including the diversion of public rights of way and landscape planting

Authority
Buckinghamshire Council - Aylesbury Area *
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Hearing
Development
utilities-energy · Other Major Developments
Inspector
Thomas G
Postcode
MK17 0PG

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • the landscape and visual impacts of the appeal scheme
  • the effect on heritage assets
  • whether there would be an unacceptable impact on protected species

What decided it

The public benefits of renewable energy generation and the national imperative to tackle climate change were found to clearly and decisively outweigh the identified landscape, visual and heritage harms.

the national imperative to tackle climate change together with the identified renewable energy benefits clearly and decisively outweighed the localised landscape and visual harms and the 'less than substantial harm' to the setting of the listed Lodge

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy C3Policy BE1Policy BE2Policy NE1Policy NE4
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 152Paragraph 158Paragraph 170Paragraph 174Paragraph 202

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