Published in the Portsmouth News on 13th September 2013By Ellie Pilmoor
A DISUSED landfill site near Fareham will become a solar farm after planning permission was granted
The former Funtley landfill will be transformed into a solar farm the size of 17 football pitches.
An application was made earlier this year by Cassidy & Ashton – a north-west architecture, surveying and town planning firm.
And Winchester County Council has approved it.
Hundreds of solar panels on steel frames will be mounted on ballasted framework along with a gas management system.
Both will provide energy to the national grid.
Alban Cassidy, chartered town planner and environmental consultant at Cassidy & Ashton, said: ‘This project will make use of a former landfill site and will deliver a valuable source of energy not only for the local area, but for the whole country.
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