Energy giant bids to get planning decision overturned
30th June 2017
Ecotricity has lodged an appeal after its plans to build a green gas plant were rejected.
The Stroud-based renewal energy company wants to build the plant at Fiddington, near Tewkesbury, but the proposals have been opposed twice by Tewkesbury Borough Council.
Now, it has lodged an appeal with the Planning Inspectorate over the first decision by the council, taken in October, to reject the plans.
In refusing permission on that occasion, the council said "the proposed development would exert a strong adverse impact upon the local landscape character and result in significant landscape harm by reason of its unacceptably intrusive industrial character, scale and prominence."
It added that the "scale and nature of the proposed development and the resulting volume and type of traffic associated with it would have a harmful impact on the character, appearance, and peace and tranquillity of the area."
After the hearing, Ecotricity founder Dale Vince spoke of his disappointment, saying the company would have injected £3million into the local economy every year, created new jobs, supported existing farming jobs, and created new wildlife habitats.
A second application, for a smaller scheme, which Ecotricity said provide enough green gas to power nearly 3,500 typical UK homes, was rejected in April.
In the latest development, an Ecotricity spokesman said: "We can confirm that we've submitted an appeal for our original application.
"Green gas from grass is an enormous opportunity for Britain to make its own gas without fracking, meet climate change targets and help the farming sector diversify."
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