Climate Emergency
Case reference EIR2024/00016
Published 14 March 2024
Request
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information; 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
As per Section 21 of FOIA the information is available on public domain.
Our council has declared a Climate Emergency - you can read in detail about this and the Council's response here:
https://www.oxford.gov.uk/climate-emergency
Details of all planning applications, including outcome and time between submission and determination are available online.
There are no pre-existing reports available to best give data for this this question, nor does the system allow for an easy search, and so the residents will need to manually search this information via our website.
https://www.oxford.gov.uk/info/20066/planning_applications/933/current_planning_applications
Documents
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