{"id":6460,"date":"2023-08-14T07:53:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T06:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/south-west\/?p=6460"},"modified":"2023-08-14T08:13:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T07:13:27","slug":"solar-farm-ambitions-dimmed-after-planning-refusal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/south-west\/news\/6460-solar-farm-ambitions-dimmed-after-planning-refusal","title":{"rendered":"Solar farm ambitions dimmed after planning refusal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plans for a solar farm with the capacity to power 8,000 homes have been voted down by Cornwall Council.<\/p>\n<p>Copper Bottom Solar Farm is a 49-hectare site near Camborne planned by Aura Power Developments.<\/p>\n<p>Planning officials from Cornwall Council had recommended plans for the site be approved, but planning committee members voted 9-2 to refuse.<\/p>\n<p>Cornwall Council declared a climate emergency in January 2019 and has set an ambition to become carbon neutral by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>However councillors chose to place greater importance on the loss of agricultural land, after the meeting heard representations from campaigners, residents and local MP George Eustice.<\/p>\n<p>The Copper Bottom Solar Farm scheme forecast it would save 19,700 tonnes of CO2 every year.<\/p>\n<p>It had gone through public consultation in late 2021 and submitted its application a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Bristol-based Aura has projects across Europe and North America. It has a permit secured for a proposed solar farm near Whimple, East Devon, while it is also progressing plans for a site in North Devon, at Litchardon Cross.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6461\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6461\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/aug_23\/Copper-Bottom-Solar-Farm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/aug_23\/Copper-Bottom-Solar-Farm.png 800w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/aug_23\/Copper-Bottom-Solar-Farm-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/aug_23\/Copper-Bottom-Solar-Farm-768x628.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/aug_23\/Copper-Bottom-Solar-Farm-200x164.png 200w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/aug_23\/Copper-Bottom-Solar-Farm-500x409.png 500w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/aug_23\/Copper-Bottom-Solar-Farm-600x491.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the plans for Copper Bottom Solar Farm (Credit: Aura Power Developments)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Councillors vote against scheme, reversing planning officers&#8217; recommendation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"coauthors":[81],"class_list":["post-6460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-property","tag-cornwall","tag-top-story"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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