Two thirds of UK renewables applications fail to get through planning stage
Two thirds of UK renewables applications fail to get through planning stage
Cornwall Insight?s Renewables Pipeline Tracker shows that between 2018 and 2023, the majority of applications to build renewable projects were unsuccessful in progressing through ...
The low success rate of applications has been put down, in part, to an increasingly number of speculative applications being submitted. Industry reports show a rise in so called “phantom projects” in these cases, developers submit multiple applications for many sites, with the expectation being that very few will connect. These speculative and duplicate applications have seen the connections queue grow, increasing the work needed to progress projects.
Seems like this is an issue that needs to be addressed.