Parcel 1643 Middle Piece Lane, Burnett (solar farm)

6005916·Bath and North East Somerset·19 Aug 2026allowed·24/02489/EFUL

Tier label used

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The tier sentence ¶13

“the larger settlement”

Summary

A 28 ha solar farm with battery storage on four fields in the Bristol–Bath Green Belt near Keynsham. Bath and North East Somerset refused it; the appeal was allowed. The inspector found the land to be grey belt and the scheme to meet all the relevant GB7(1)(g) limbs, so it was not inappropriate development. Significant landscape harm and minor harm to the settings of listed buildings were outweighed by substantial weight given to renewable energy and storage.

The location finding

GB7(1)(g)(iii): pass. transport considerations "of limited significance" for a land-intensive solar farm with minimal operational traffic; no highway objection (DL 23)

Why this is cited

This decision was picked up by the search on the words above, which refer to services, not to a settlement tier. plain description (Bath).

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6005916.txt

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