Proposals for the Great North Road Solar and Biodiversity Park were submitted to the planning inspection on 27 June and accepted on July 22, 2025. The site will now enter the pre -exam phase, which usually lasts approximately three months.
Due to the size of the project, brought forward by developer elements Green, it is considered a nationally important infrastructure project (NSIP). This means that the Minister of Foreign Affairs will decide ED Miliband whether the application for planning state is approved.
After extensive community consultation, elements Green renamed the site with reference to the extensive biodiversity measures that come next to the solar PV. Elements Green collaborated with the RSPB, Sherwood Forest Trust, Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust and the Trent Rivers Trust To guarantee nature of development; It was the first partnership of its kind in the sun sector.
UK Project Director at Elements Green, Mark Noone, said: “The input we received during the various consultation rounds played a crucial role in shaping a stronger, more responsible proposal, and we are grateful for anyone who has taken the time to participate.”
The site will also have a battery energy storage system (BESS) of an unknown capacity.
Elements Green will also contain cattle engrazen, with nearly 4,000 sheep that are expected to manage vegetation in the park as soon as it becomes operational in 2027, making it “The largest solar farm in the UK” to record grazing.
The company recently announced that it is one € 80 million (£ 69.5 million) Platform financing agreement with Danish Investor Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP)that will use it to develop its 13GW pipeline of solar and bess projects.
In the PV Tech Power Journal number Volume 42, Q2 2025, the Great North Road Solar and Biodiversity Park is used as an example of How developers respond to the concerns of local opponents.
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