Land off Moat Lane, Wickersley, S66 1DZ

the erection of a100MW battery storage facility, creation of bund and associated earthworks

Authority: Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
Appeal type: other · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Hearing
Development: utilities-energy · Unknown
Inspector: Heward H

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The effect of construction traffic on highway safety with regard to pedestrians on Green Lane

What decided it

The Inspector concluded that construction traffic impacts on Green Lane could be safely and adequately mitigated through highway improvement works and a Construction Traffic Management Plan secured by planning conditions, and that the Council's highway safety objection was not substantiated by qualified evidence.

No unacceptable harm to highway or pedestrian safety was found, and the Inspector afforded significant weight to the renewable energy benefits under NPPF paragraph 168(a), supporting the decision to allow the appeal.

Framework references: 115, 116, 161, 168

Plan policies cited: Policy CS30

Judgments cited: Bellway Homes Ltd v SSCLG & Cheshire East Council CO/302/2015

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