The existing solar NSIPS regime applies to projects where the proposed generation capacity is more than 50MW in England – estimated by the government to typically consist of around 100,000 to 150,000 solar panels and cover between 125 to 200 acres – and 350MW in Wales The government is not proposing to. .
The draft revised EN-3 retains the helpful steer given in the initial 2021 proposed reforms that impacts from solar farms should be considered as temporary, though it does recognise. .
The draft revised EN-3 sets out factors around site selection for solar farms that will play into NSIP planning decisions. The proposed new policy confirms that development of ground mounted solar arrays is not prohibited on. [pdf]
The encroachment of ground-mounted solar PV arrays (referred to as solar PV) onto farmland is considered to run counter to Downing Street’s 2022 Growth Plan, in which agricultural productivity has been described as being “weak for many years”. The Government has committed to “. review frameworks for. .
The biggest threat to British food production and security is not solar PV generation on moderate quality agricultural land but is in fact climate change. As the 2022 summer heatwave. .
The proposed policy harks back to a time of old where a high input model of farming was pursued at the expense of the natural environment. That model is one that British farmers themselves no longer wish to pursue, as the backlash. [pdf]
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