Agenda item
DM/25/00899/FPA - Land South Of Spennymoor Electricity Substation (south), Thinford Lane, Thinford, DH6 5JX
Proposed Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) including associated infrastructure, engineering works, drainage, cabling, landscaping and access
Supporting documents:
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02 - DM-25-00899-FPA - Porch House Battery Storage, item 5b
PDF 1 MB - Submitted application form, plans, supporting documents and subsequent information provided by the applicant, statutory, internal and public responses:, item 5b
- National Planning Policy Framework, National Planning Policy Guidance Notes and County Durham Plan (2020), item 5b
- County Durham Plan supporting documents: Development Viability, Affordable Housing and Financial Contributions SPD (2024), Trees, Woodlands and Hedges SPD (2024):, item 5b
- County Durham Landscape Strategy (2008) and County Durham Landscape Character (2008), item 5b
- National Policy Statements for Energy Infrastructure (EN:1 Overarching National Policy Statement for Energy (published in January 2024) EN-3 National Policy Statement for Renewable Energy Infrastructure (published in January 2024), item 5b
- Powering Up Britain: Energy Security Plan (April 2023), item 5b
- Climate Change Act (2008):, item 5b
- Climate Change Committee 2022 Progress Report to Parliament:, item 5b
- Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener:, item 5b
- Energy White Paper: Powering our Net Zero Future:, item 5b
- British Energy Security Strategy:, item 5b
- National Energy System Operator (NESO) Future Energy Scenarios publication:, item 5b
- Government Food Strategy:, item 5b
- National Fire Chiefs Council ‘Grid Scale Battery Energy Storage System planning – Guidance for FRS’ (November 2022, updated), item 5b