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Search the Public Notice PortalTHE DEADLINE to submit views on an application for an 'industrial scale' solar farm near the A449 has been extended.
People will now have until Monday, March 10 to submit their opinions on the proposed Chapel Hill Solar Farm as part of a public consultation.
Concerns have been raised about the impact rolling roadworks would have on the area during construction, while others have said the scale of the potential 271-acre solar warm was the issue that has 'woken people up from their slumber'.
The solar farm would be just off the Worcester Road, around 2km north of Great Malvern and on either side of the A449.
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A public consultation period originally included up to Friday, February 21.
However, as there are three parish councils within the applications area a formal extension of time was given to ensure that all interested parties had time to respond.
If approved, the 49.9MW solar farm and battery energy storage system will power 19,000 homes a year.
A decision on the planning application, which also includes new habitats such as bird nesting boxes and grassland areas, landscaping enhancements and a £660,000 community benefit fund, isn't expected until next year.
A public meeting which took place at Powick Parish Hall on February 12 saw many disgruntled residents put their views about the application to applicants RWE.
Cllr Tom Wells, who organised that meeting, said the industrial scale of the application was the issue for many people and 'woken people up from their slumber.'
He added that the application might fail because of the scale, adding perhaps half of something is better than all of nothing.
Daniel Corcoran, representing RWE, said there was no hiding the application as it was 'really big', however, the more solar farms are completed at half the scale, the more solar farms would be needed to produce the energy necessary.
One of the key concerns raised at the meeting was the possibility of over seven months of rolling roadworks to construct and bury a power cable from Powick to Spring Lane in Malvern Link.
Residents raised fears that traffic in the area, which they claim is already at gridlock in the mornings, will become 'awful.'
Mr Corcoran said the cable route would all be agreed with highways and RWE was trying to have discussions on the best way of doing it.
Visit planning application: M/24/01781/FUL - Malvern Hills District Council to have your say on the mooted solar farm.
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