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National Grid wishes to build a Pressure Reduction
Installation in open countryside in Gloucestershire, on land adjacent to Flat Farm, near
Tirley.
NG lodged a planning application for the site (the one on the right in the map below) with Tewkesbury Borough Council in December 2008 but in February 2010 the Council refused planning permission. NG have now lodged an appeal, which CAPRI intends to fight.
Under their proposal, NG would construct an industrial complex in an unspoilt, rural landscape. CAPRI vehemently opposes this plan.
National Grid applied for planning permission to build a PRI only 400 yards to the west of the proposed site in
April 2006, but CAPRI objected and permission was refused in October 2006. National Grid
appealed and a Public Inquiry was held in May 2007. CAPRI gave evidence
and the appeal was dismissed by the Secretaries of State in December 2007 .
We believe that the best site for this PRI is not the unspoilt countryside at Tirley. There are alternatives sites which are better and more appropriate.
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View north westwards from the B4213 across the proposed site towards the Malverns.
The Corse site (the 'appeal site') is coloured BLUE.
The Tirley site ('present application site', or 'Flat Farm' site) as proposed by NG in December 2008 is coloured WHITE.
The land coloured PURPLE is land which in July 2009 NG proposed to take for landscaping.
NG issued in September 2009 a Compulsory Purchase Order in respect of the land coloured RED, PURPLE and WHITE.
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