Sign up to our daily Wakefield Express Today newsletterThe campaign to stop the the plan build one of the battery energy storage system (BESS) near to Heath village in Wakefield has also been backed by councillors and local MP from different parties.Last month, a planning application was submitted to Wakefield Council on behalf of Harmony Energy to build on farmland in the greenbelt.The site of the BESS is also close to the new City Fields housing development and the city’s travellers’ site.Julie Medford, Labour councillor for Normanton, looking out across fields at Heath Common which could be the site of energy storage farm.Sign up to our daily Wakefield Express Today newsletterA spokesperson for the group said: “We are not against battery energy storage sites and well understand the need for more sustainable energy storage and supply. But this is the wrong site.“We urge…
More than 600 residents, MPs and councillors back fight to stop energy storage farm near historic Heath village
