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Solar Farms and Battery Storage

Proceeding contribution from James Gray (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 8 June 2022. It occurred during Debate on Solar Farms and Battery Storage.

My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point, which I will come back to in one second. The NPPF is central to this, and when the Government come out with their update to it, it must include strict rules on solar farms.

We in Wiltshire are being targeted. I have huge sites at Derry Hill and at Leigh Delamere, and many sites have huge battery storage facilities attached to them. Something like 25 battery sites are currently being considered by Wiltshire Council. There is a proposal for a huge battery farm at Lea near Malmesbury. It is perfect, first-class agricultural land. I went to a public meeting in Lea the other day on the subject, and 250 people turned up in that tiny village—that must be more than the entire population of the village. That shows the strength of local feeling, but none the less the battery farm may go ahead—we will have to see .

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Reference

715 c387WH 

Session

2022-23

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall
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