Ed Miliband is to relax planning laws to make it easier and cheaper for developers to build onshore wind turbines and solar farms. The Telegraph has more.
Ministers currently need to sign off on all new “nationally significant” turbines and solar developments that produce more than 50 megawatts (MW) of power.
But Mr. Miliband, the Energy Secretary, and Angela Rayner, the Housing Secretary, are hoping to increase the threshold to 100MW for wind and 150MW for solar.
The proposals, first reported by the Times, are part of a new consultation on the Government’s planned reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework.
Online guidance from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government reads: “With the changes in technology that have taken place since, many small or medium-sized projects now exceed the existing nationally significant threshold.
“This can be a barrier to the accelerated and streamlined deployment of these two cheap electricity-generating technologies at scales below what most people would consider to be nationally significant.
“Potentially allowing projects that fall beneath these thresholds to move through the local planning system, given they are less complex and geographically spread out, could result in faster consenting, and at lower cost.”
Mr. Miliband has already been accused of putting Britain’s food security at risk after signing off on the country’s biggest solar farm, which will be built on green land.
The Energy Secretary prompted fury by defying the planning inspectorate to green-light a 2,792-acre solar farm and energy infrastructure project in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
Worth reading in full.
Ah yes, the ‘green’ movement that destroys the countryside.
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Jesus, I’ve just returned from Devon, holidaying near this 164 acre Solarfarm eyesore (still being built, 17 times smaller than the one in the story!):
“https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-59167316”
passed by unelected officals with scant local consultation:
“A close vote has seen permission granted for a 164-acre solar farm.
The vote passed by five votes to four by Torridge District Council’s Planning Committee in north Devon.”
On the “plus side”, the MET office must be salivating at the prospect of new temperature station locations.
Yes indeed, along with just outside the massive greenhouse of Kew Gardens, Heathrow Airport with it’s nice toasty asphalt, and Coningsby’s RAF base with it’s afterburner jets affording the weather stations a nice balmy passing heatwave.
Excellent! Let the anger build.
Slightly perplexed though. How long does it take him to find his crayons to sign his name? I’d have thought that the more installations that get referred to him, the quicker they’d be signed of.
I agree, the nimbys are often the same people that are pushing crippling net zero on the world, they should face the consequences of their claimed moral high ground
“Nimby” is such an arrogant, dismissive slur on anyone who respects the value of natural and (vitally important) agricultural land, and resists the onslaught of the concreting-over and commodification of the countryside. They were just “getting in the way” when it came to the HS2 protests, and now once again they’re just “getting in the way” of the earmarking of the countryside for giant corporate interests.
We take this banner out with us 3 times a week.
Well done….can you tell us more about what you are doing there?
It is unhelpful to public policy debate to use the term “green land” or even “green belt”
they are trying to confuse the nature of the Green Belt or the Metropolitan Green Belt.
The land where consent was given is high quality farm land which produces food year after year. It is also surrounds villages whose residents will suffer a severe degradation of their lives.
Irish Gypsies will just love all that copper. Excellent.
Back in 2008-2009 I worked in field sales for City Electrical Factors in North London. One of my customers once showed me CCTV footage of what happened to the 60m of Steel Wire Amoured cable he and his team had recently installed up a lift shaft of a tower block being refurbished.
One evening, they reversed their van through the gates, breaking the chain, as the security guard watched from his chair. Then two of them climbed up the scaffold with a thick rope, and once at the top, tied it to the top of the cable and let the rope dangle down the lift shaft. That loose end was then fixed to the trailer hook of the waiting van. They drove off at speed, leaving a cloud of dust pouring from the bottom of the shaft as the cable ripped its steel cleats from the concrete and tumbled to the ground. The cable was stuffed into the back of that van quicker than the police would a drunken Scouser (back in the day, when they weren’t busy policing pronouns).
They’re gonna love Ed’s solar fields. Easy, easy pickings. That’s if any actually get built, of course, which I doubt.
https://youtu.be/fSaWSTC-1uY?si=Q0pvYCxRZ_6DeySx
Birmingham today.
FFS!
On my laptop I cannot watch this. I am getting this age verification thing asking for a driving license or photo etc to prove age. Yet I have never been asked for this when watching via my TV. Can you please give the title of the video you are referring to eg “Sky News van Attacked by knife wielding man in Birmingham” or whatever title your video has ——thankyou
‘Chaos on the streets of Birmingham England and no police’ by unseen reports.
What a gross dereliction of duty by the police – surely they should have been there to protect the marauding Muslim defence league? Isn’t that what the toolmakers son has decreed?
How ironic a poster on a passing bus, advertising a film ‘It ends with us’!
Prophetic, or what?
Ode to our favourite left-wing insect:
“We love you Millipede, we do!
We love you Millepede, we do!
We love you Millipede, we do, Ohh,
Millepede we love you!”
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Squire Milliband on his most selfless efforts to make the United Kingdom the agricultural whore of the world. After all, there’s nothing quite like national food security or energy independence for getting in the way of the most noble agenda – becoming a “Net-Zero Superpower”.
Hear that? Net Zero gets us Superpowers! Never mind the unaffordable energy bill for your average household… we’ll be a Superpower, and if you’ve got superpowers you can do anything you want!
Yes very funny. ———-Or it would be funny if it were not so utterly disgusting. This cretin is the most dangerous individual in the UK and him and Reeves who just removed the winter fuel allowance are in effect going to freeze the life out of pensioners and poor people. Miliband needs to be reminded (not that he gives a shit) that cold kills way more people than heat does, and when you force pensioners and poor people into energy poverty you are going to kill even more of them. The Net Zero Climate Policies are actually far worse for people than the alleged climate change itself, where there is no real evidence that we are causing or will cause dangerous changes to the climate. But there is overwhelming evidence that cold kills, and so will the absurd policies of the UN/ WEF lackey’s Miliband and Reeves.
“Streamlined deployment of these two cheap electricity generating technologies” —-How can bare faced liars get away with saying these technologies are cheap? It is well known that the countries in Europe with the highest electricity prices are the ones with the most turbines (Germany, Denmark and the UK) —–Miliband and Labour want more and more wind so that only means one thing—more expensive electricity, because for every MW of wind you need a MW of backup to cover for its intermittency and that means paying for two sources of power rather than one. ——Wind is NOT cheap and neither is solar and hey Miliband have you ever seen a Lithium mine?
I do hope mr Milliband will seek more scientific info before he spends more money on energy which can only be produced when there is adequate sun and or wind. It seems a bit dangerous to put all our energy production effort in one basket? But what do I know, I am only a nurse.
You clearly know what’s common sense AND are not being influenced by shady powerful political interests… ever thought of running for office!? 😉
I hope to live long enough (nearly 62) to see all of these blots on the landscape ripped up and reverted back to “nature”, when these imbeciles in charge finally realise its all a massive con – which most probably already know – but its very lucrative.
These vanity projects, that have no positive properties.