An application has recently been submitted by Avalon Community Energy for 60 pv cells on the eastern roof of the Connect Centre.

The appeal against refusal (3184981) was dismissed, mainly on the ground that the applicants had failed to carry out an adequate search for a suitable site. See below: “25. Given all of the above and the harm that I have identified, I need to be satisfied that alternatives have indeed been thoroughly explored. I am mindful that there is a limit to how far an operator can reasonably be expected to go to demonstrate no other less intrusive or harmful sites are available. Noneth