Freedom of information response

Climate Emergency

Publication date: 
Thursday 11 April 2024
Request: 

Has your council declared a climate emergency?

Please provide a breakdown of how many projects in the following categories your council has objected to, rejected and approved over the last three years; battery storage, wind and solar.

What is the average time taken to make a decision on each of the following types of projects; battery storage, solar and wind.

Response: 

Has your council declared a climate emergency?

In October 2019 the Council passed a motion to declare a climate emergency and to take urgent action to reduce its carbon emissions to net-zero by 2030

Please provide a breakdown of how many projects in the following categories your council has objected to, rejected and approved over the last three years; battery storage, wind and solar.

Planning applications are public documents and details of all planning applications determined by the Council can be found on the Public Access pages of the Council webpage at the following link:

Simple Search (thurrock.gov.uk)

What is the average time taken to make a decision on each of the following types of projects; battery storage, solar and wind.

The length of determination periods can be found (and an average subsequently calculated) via the Public Access pages on the Council website.

Request reference:
FOI 13606