Elgin Energy has secured planning permission for a 38MW solar photovoltaic project on the site of a former World War 2 airfield in Kettering, England.
Consultancy Pegasus, on behalf of Elgin, led the application for the solar farm on part of what was the Royal Air Force Grafton Underwood base.
Pegasus associate environmental planner Isobel Hollands said: “We are extremely pleased that this 38MW ground mounted solar scheme has been approved.
“Our experienced team carried out a great deal of collaborative work with Kettering Council’s planning officers in order to put together this well-considered plan.
“We have been working on the project since late 2018, with the application submitted in 2019, and it has utilised a full suite of Pegasus Group services including Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Landscape and Visual Assessment, Heritage Assessment, planting design, public consultation and Planning.
“Once submitted, we also took on the role of planning agent, working on an iterative design that took on board all the comments from the parish council and statutory consultees in order to ensure we had an acceptable proposal.”
The 68-hectare site of the new solar farm is on land to the north-west of Grafton Underwood.
Construction is scheduled to take four months and it will have a 30-year life span.
Permission was granted subject to conditions.