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Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Baginton Parish Council

Area SC03 (Airport and proposed Gigafactory). This land is still in Green Belt and has been given provisional approval based on the ‘Very Special Circumstances’ that it is the only site in the UK capable of housing Europe’s largest Gigafactory. We wish to stress;

i. Anything less than Europe’s largest Gigafactory does not satisfy the ‘Very Special Circumstances’ requirement to utilise Green Belt. This is also true for the recently advertised Volktec proposal which only uses one-sixth of the site and could be built in many smaller alternative locations.
ii. We must insist that the SWLP recognises that the SC03 development site MUST be kept within the Green Belt. If Europe’s biggest Gigafactory is not forthcoming, the site should not be quietly dropped into the Government’s new ‘Grey Belt’ category and developed as unwanted warehousing.