Next Parish Planning Meeting Confirmed

The next Halberton PC Planning Committee meeting will be on 

Tuesday 24 June 2014 

at 7.30 

in the 

Jubilee Room in the Halberton Village Hall 

Even the cat came!

Today’s meeting was very well attended, even the village cat came!

The key points were:

DON'T BE DOWN HEARTED: Don't be put off or feel down hearted by this re-submission. It was to be expected.

It is VERY IMPORTANT to let both Halberton Parish and the Mid Devon District Council know if you object.

WRITE AGAIN: You may have written letters to the council before but if you still object, you must write again. Your previous letters will not be considered as a part of this application, so its vital that you write again. Do it in your own words and let them know what you think.

Griff Rhys Jones agrees: Don't Build on Good Land

Picture from the BBC website

The government has rejected a plan for a 43,000-panel solar farm near Ipswich, following a campaign by opponents, who included comedian Griff Rhys Jones.

Babergh District Council refused to grant planning permission last year for the £25m project at Valley Farm, Tattingstone, Suffolk

Developers Hive Energy appealed to the government's Planning Inspectorate, which has now also turned it down.

Campaigners said the farm was out of place in a "special landscape".
Mr Griff Rhys Jones said: "This is not a victory for climate change deniers, it is a victory for sensible planning of what remains an urgent requirement.

"The inquiry simply said 'don't build solar farms on beautiful land' and we should all agree with that."

Read the full story here

Re-submission of the Planning Application

Re-submission of the Planning Application


PRE- APPLICATION CONSULTATION

The planning consultancy, Alder King, have today written to a number of residents, on behalf of British Solar Renewables Ltd (formerly Solar Power Generation Limited) to inform them that a re-submission of refused planning application 12/01664/MFUL for a proposed solar park is being prepared and will shortly be submitted to Mid Devon District Council.

The letter states "as we believe the public's view on the proposal in principle is well known we will not be holding a specific public consultation event."

The letter came with a leaflet that makes a number of claims together with a  master plan of the area, as shown below.

Further information will be posted on this website as and when it becomes known.