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Search the Public Notice PortalPlans to build a solar farm near Devizes have been revealed.
Wiltshire Council's strategic planning committee will examine the application by Devizes Solar Ltd - a subsidiary of Ampyr Solar Europe - to construct a 13.5MW solar array on 29 hectares of land half a mile outside Poulshott.
Permission for a 32 hectare solar park near the site was granted in 2013.
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The current proposal is for four banks of 'tracker' solar panels that follow the sun throughout the day. The panels would measure three metres tall (10 ft) are their highest.
The site would be surrounded by two metre high security fencing and CCTV with infrared capabilities and no external lighting would be required.
A substation would be built to the north of the site and an underground cable would carry the generated electricity 1.8 km north east to the electricity grid.
The applicant says the scheme "would give rise to minimal physical alteration to the existing site, and it has been designed to include additional planting which would further integrate it into the existing landscape and visual context, in addition to enhancing biodiversity and introducing valuable ecological corridors."
Sheep grazing could be incorporated into the scheme, it says.
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Poulshott Parish Council has objected to the application saying that they have had no contact from the applicants. They say the application site is on the flood plain of Semington Brook and that development could make flooding worse.
They also object to the height of the panels.
Objections have also been received from the Campaign to Protect Rural England, which complains of an overprovision of solar farms in Wiltshire, which has passed its 2030 target by 39 per cent.
And the British Horse Society says the development would affect three bridleways.
There are no objections from Wiltshire Council's own landscape officers.
Wiltshire Council's planning department recommends that the scheme is approved.
This year two applications for solar farms near the site have been rejected by Wiltshire planners: One Tree Hill solar farm in May, and Potterne Park Solar in July.
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