{"id":135764,"date":"2025-09-14T01:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135764\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T01:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:06:18","slug":"solar-farm-plan-in-brize-norton-that-could-power-town-refused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135764\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar farm plan in Brize Norton that &#8216;could power town&#8217; refused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A plan for a solar farm that developers said could generate enough power for an Oxfordshire town has been rejected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">AMPYR Solar Europe applied to build the 30MW farm and battery energy storage system (BESS) on agricultural land off Witney Road in Brize Norton, near the Grade II* listed wedding venue Caswell House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Oxfordshire District Council was told the 114 acre (46 hectare) site could generate power for 12,000 homes, equivalent to about 80% to 100% of Witney&#8217;s needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some councillors said they worried a private water supply used by Caswell House, which is located about 550m (1,800ft) from the solar farm site, could be contaminated in the event of a fire in the BESS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plan for a solar farm that developers said could generate enough power for an Oxfordshire town has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-135764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}