The British government has eased planning restriction on onshore wind project backed by local people in England (United Kingdom). The measures, which come into effect immediately, comprises broadening the ways that suitable locations can be identified, including by communities, and speeding up the process of allocating sites by giving alternatives to the local plan process.
Previous planning rules, which allowed a single complaint to block a project, had ruled out since 2015 new onshore wind plants, although they were not formally banned.
Onshore wind accounts for 14% of the United Kingdom’s installed capacity, with 15 GW at end-2022. Between 2015 and 2022, onshore wind capacity increased by an average of 760 MW/year, compared to 960 MW/year over the 2010-2015 period.
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