{"id":705390,"date":"2026-07-22T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705390\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:46:10","slug":"pembrokeshire-space-radar-plan-to-be-considered-by-welsh-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705390\/","title":{"rendered":"Pembrokeshire space radar plan to be considered by Welsh government"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plans to build a massive 20m-high space radar station in Pembrokeshire will be decided by Welsh government ministers.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) wants to build 27 radar dishes at Cawdor Barracks in Brawdy.<\/p>\n

The dishes, standing at 66ft (20m) high and 49ft (15m) wide, would form part of a trilateral AUKUS security partnership with the US and Australian governments.<\/p>\n

Fewer than a dozen planning applications, out of about 25,000 in Wales, are called in each year – a process which means ministers make the final decision not a council.<\/p>\n

Campaigners People Against Radar Campaign (PARC) – which claimed the project could allow US President Donald Trump to dominate space<\/a> from Wales – welcomed the move.<\/p>\n

The UK government previously said the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability<\/a> (DARC) was vital to track objects in deep space and protect satellite and communication and navigation networks.<\/p>\n

But PARC said it was “being developed for the US Space Force which was created under Donald Trump at a time when US military spending has doubled since he took office”.<\/p>\n

“That is why DARC has been described as a significant escalation in the militarisation of space,” it said.<\/p>\n

The Plaid Cymru-led Welsh government declined to comment on calling in the application.<\/p>\n

Its website, external<\/a> said any person could make a request to call in a planning or related application for consideration but it “does not mean it will be refused”.<\/p>\n

“The power to call in is used very infrequently and only when a proposal raises issues of more than local importance,” it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans to build a massive 20m-high space radar station in Pembrokeshire will be decided by Welsh government ministers.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-705390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705390","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=705390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}