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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 1 September 2025

Debate

Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Contribution

The total amount of land required for battery deployment is likely to be a tiny fraction of the best and most versatile agricultural land and many, if not most, projects can be built on other land. However, excluding the entire pipeline of battery projects from a significant proportion of England’s agricultural land will inevitably add costs and delay, and risks frustrating the clean power objective.

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