Portsmouth's Lakeside Business Park solar panel plan signed off by council

Portsmouth City Council has approved an ambitious proposal to put up thousands of solar panels at the Lakeside Business Park.

The planning approval for the multimillion-pound installation of thousands of renewable energy units at the business park has been granted by councillors and fully authorised by Portsmouth City Council.

Last month, the planning committee's members overwhelmingly approved the £11 million project, praising it as "another illustration of how this authority is addressing the climate emergency seriously." It's now, effectively, been rubber stamped.

Under the project, the council will install almost 2,000 panels on the roof of the Lakeside buildings and a further 11,000 on canopies erected above its car parking spaces. It said the panels will providing up to 5,900kwp of power. That's the equivalent of 1,000 tonnes of carbon emissions being saved a year by replacing more polluting methods of producing electricity.

Funding will come from the £30m Low Carbon Projects Fund set up by the council this year.

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