Developers plan to push ahead with new solar farm in Peterborough village

Larkfleet homes has restated its intention for land to the south of Witterning Ford Road in Barnack to be used as a solar farm.

The group has applied for a certificate of lawfulness in an attempt to confirm that the planning permission for a new solar farm on the site remains valid after the application- which was approved in January 2016- expired on January 29, 2019.

The latest application argues that installation work began on the site before that date and therefore the permission should remain valid.

So far, a transformer has been installed, with the application providing an ordnance survey map to show it was built in May 2018.

The site itself is a 8.39-hectare field in the open countryside along the Wittering Ford Road, just south of the RAF Wittering base.

The application will now be considered by planning officers and can be viewed on the city council’s planning portal using reference 23/00217/CLE.