PS Renewables receives planning permission for new solar farm in Lincolnshire

We are delighted to announce that Church Lane Solar Farm in Lincolnshire has received planning permission, following an appeal made to the Planning Inspectorate.

The Planning Inspector determined that the benefits of the proposal, including increasing sources of domestic renewable energy production and a significant biodiversity net gain were of sufficient magnitude to outweigh the temporary use of the higher-grade agricultural land.

This is an important milestone for this project which, once built, would generate electricity sufficient to power 8,500 homes each year, preventing harmful emissions from fossil-fuelled power stations.

Senior Planning Manager, James Walker said: “We are very pleased that the Church Lane Solar Farm has been granted planning permission. It is welcomed that the Inspector put the temporary use of higher-grade land into proper context in making their decision, both in terms of impact on the wider agricultural resource and in weighing this impact against the significant public benefits. The decision continues an encouraging trend in appeal decisions where agricultural land is a main issue, which will hopefully continue to filter through to Local Planning Authorities and Planning Committees.”

Church Lane Solar will be located on 42 hectares of land to the south of Welby, with a capacity of 34MW.