Every council said no. It happened anyway.
Mildenhall to Burwell
What we can show
Sunnica covers about 2,792 acres of solar and batteries from Mildenhall to Burwell. It was approved despite the inspectors' recommendation and opposition from every affected council.
- Suffolk County Council: shock at Sunnica go-ahead
- Cambridgeshire County Council: disappointment at the decision
How sprawl adds to this
Uncoordinated national projects land on the same countryside the housing allocations are already taking. Each decision is separate. The parish lives with the sum.
What a larger settlement cannot undo
A larger planned settlement does not undo Sunnica. The consent stands. What concentration can do is stop the next housing take being decided as if this industrial stack were not already on the map.
What this page does not claim
The Sunnica consent stands. Nothing here reverses or relocates it.
The pattern is fewer, larger places with infrastructure first, not another estate on the edge of every village.
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