Plans for gas peaking plans at Shap to be debated this week
Objectors Peter Dicken and George Payne at the proposed gas peaking plant site, near Shap.
A decision is set to be made this week on whether to give the go-ahead to two gas peaking plants for electricity generation in Cumbria.
Plans have been submitted to Eden District Council for the gas peaking plants on land next to the Tata Steel Lime Kilns at Shap, and it will fall to the council’s planning committee next Thursday to decide whether to approve the proposals.
As peaking plants, they would not run at all times, and instead would be brought online at peak times, supplying electricity to the National Grid.
The Tata operation at Shap. Picture: Google Streetview A DECISION is set to be made next week on whether to give the go-ahead to two gas peaking plants for electricity generation in Cumbria. Plans have been submitted to Eden District Council for two gas peaking plants on land next to the Tata Steel Lime Kilns at Shap, and it will fall to the council s planning committee next Thursday to decide whether to approve the proposals. As peaking plants, they would not run at all times, and instead would be brought online at peak times, supplying electricity to the National Grid.
Plans have been approved, in spite of a number of objections, for a 15m-high telecommunications mast near Haweswater in the Lake District. The mast, which will be constructed adjacent to Lakeside Road, will be for the exclusive use of bolstering the communications network used by the emergency services. The mast will form part of the new Emergency Services Network (ESN), which will replace the Airwave system currently in use. Objections were raised to the plans, which were drawn up by the Home Office, from a number of individuals and organisations, including Shap Parish Council, Friends of the Lake District, the Mardale Commoners Association and the RSPB.