'We've exhausted all our options’ in challenging solar farm approval says Telford & Wrekin Council
The site where the Steeraway Solar Farm will be built. Picture: Telford & Wrekin Council
When planning permission was submitted for the development 200 objections were received by Telford & Wrekin Council. On appeal a government planning inspector overturned the decision and approved the development after a three-day public inquiry. The council challenged the inspector’s decision with Shaun Davies, leader of the council, arguing that coupled with the neighbouring solar farm works at New Works Lane the developments would ‘blight the surrounds of the Wrekin for generations to come’.refused to hear the appealDeputy leader of the council, Richard Overton, says that the authority has now ‘exhausted all of its options’ in objecting to the Steeraway Farm development.
“Clearly, we are hugely disappointed by the judge’s decision not to hear our case against the farm’s planning approval, but we have to respect that decision. He followed a clear legal process and there are no grounds for us to challenge it.The council has also mounted a legal challenge to the High Court over the decision to approve the neighbouring New Works Solar Farm.
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