REGISTRATIONS TO COMMENT DURING THE PLANNING INSPECTORATE’S EXAMINATION OF GREEN HILL SOLAR CLOSED ON 14 AUGUST, WITH 1253 REPRESENTATIONS. THESE PEOPLE AND BODIES CAN HELP SHAPE THE OUTCOME DURING EXAMINATION, EXPECTED TO START LATER THIS YEAR FOR AROUND SIX MONTHS.
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https://national-infrastructure-consenting.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/EN010170
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A massive industrial solar utility is proposed, spread over rural Northamptonshire. Announced in spring 2024, the Green Hill Solar farm’s 2,965-acre multi-site locations will cover farmland and greenfield spaces, bordering or significantly affecting the villages of Grendon, Easton Maudit, Bozeat, Mears Ashby, Earls Barton, Holcot, Old, Walgrave, Lavendon and beyond. 30 km of underground cabling linking sites back to Grendon substation and other substations, will affect many more people.
The Development Consent Order (DCO) application was made in June 2025 to the Planning Inspectorate, who ‘accepted it’ for Examination. The Pre-Examination period started on 3 July, and registrations to comment closed on 14 August.
Detailed documents show land affected, (including Compulsory Purchase Orders); underground cable routes; the layout of solar arrays; the locations of works compounds, substations, BESS; the transport routes and closures of PROWs, removal of hedgerows and trees.
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Green Hill Solar will be one of the largest solar utilities in the UK, outputting up to 500 MW of power with a total area nearly as big as Heathrow airport. The Mears Ashby site alone covers around 1,000 acres, and the Grendon and Easton Maudit installation spreads across more than 770 acres.
The 60-year, ‘temporary’ solar panel fields will connect into the National Grid substation in Grendon with smaller substations built within the scheme. A massive 500 MW battery storage development (BESS) is planned in Grendon, with a smaller site near Sywell.
The fields of rotating and/or fixed solar photovoltaic arrays up to 4.5m high will connect to the substation via underground cabling, passing through open land, roads and waterways. Households along possible cabling routes may have already received letters. The developers confirm there could be compulsory purchase of land to accommodate cable ducts: cable route search areas are bordered in orange on maps.
Such is the industrial size of the proposed solar farm it is considered an NSIP: a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project, as was HS2. The planning application will be approved or rejected by the Secretary of State, not local councils.
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