Councillors have approved plans to site 75 battery storage containers on farmland in Crondall, Hampshire.
Plans for the battery energy storage system (BESS), put forward by Cragside Energy for land west of Crondall Road, was deferred by Hart District Council’s development management committee in July while the authority sought assurances of the scheme’s safety from fire authorities.
Those assurances have been received and despite scores of objections, councillors supported officers’ recommendation to approve the scheme by six to one at the August 20 meeting.
Council officer Kathy Long told the meeting: “While the proposed development is located in designated countryside and does not sit within the general spatial strategy of the development plan, the countryside location for this type of development is both necessary and justified.”
The team on the project includes Renplan on planning, Prime on transport planning, CADmando on design and Amalgam on landscape planning.
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