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Huge solar energy farm next to Rochdale Canal given green light

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Plans to build a new solar energy farm on land next to the Rochdale Canal have been given the green light. Oldham council had applied to install around 2,700 solar panels on more than 3.5 acres of land at Wrigley Head in Failsworth.

The site, which is bounded on either side by the Metrolink and the Rochdale Canal, is owned by the local authority and is made up of ‘partial hardstanding’ and birch trees.

Under the plans the Failsworth plot would become a solar farm for a ‘temporary period’ of 30 years from when it begins to generate electricity.

Speaking at the committee meeting where the application was decided, planning officer Martyn Leigh said it was ‘essentially disused land’.

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