Lightrock Power safeguards permit for wildlife-friendly solar farm

• Lightrock Power has protected preparing permission for a solar plant in East Devon, after receival approval from the District Council's planning committee.

The 49.9 MW Paytherden solar farm has received assistance from the regional community with greater than 200 messages on the council's preparation portal.

The prepare for the plant have been improved in collaboration with the community and The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to take in factor to consider its surrounding biodiversity.

The Paytherden solar farm has actually been intended to benefit the surrounding wildlife and also will certainly assist owls nest on website, improve the banks of the River Clyst neighboring or boost various other existing environmental corridors for reptiles, amphibians as well as tiny mammals.

Chris Sowerbutts, founder of Lightrock Power, stated: "We encounter an ecological dilemma as well as an environment crisis so it's so important solar farms like Paytherden benefit neighborhood wildlife along with generating renewable resource."

Both the RSPB and also Lightrock Power partnered last year to assist the UK solar programmer achieve a 20% biodiversity net gain on its solar farms.