Cornwall Council Approves of Canworthy Solar Farm

Whilst it doesn't say as much on their web site just yet, Cornwall County Council have effectively approved the application from German developers Kronos Solar to construct the 25 MW Canworthy Solar Farm on 50 hectares of land at Maxworthy near Launceston.  Cornwall planning committee have approved the scheme, but delegated responsibility for dotting all the Is and crossing all the Ts on the conditions associated with the application to their planning officers. This will make it the larget solar PV park in Cornwall, and in the UK for that matter.

Some local residents are needless to say not happy about the decision itself, or the way it was arrived at. According to the Little Exe Cottage Solar Farm web site, for example:

I find it quite bizzare in a age of “democracy” and “localism”, that a Solar Farm of this size, 138 acres, with a 3,000 square metre substation, the largest in the UK, can be decided in about 30 minutes with 14 councillors for and 1 against.

The Council and the energy company has made it look like the community are behind it but this is not the case.

I suspect there will be many more such stories emerging over the next few months.