Welcome to our online consultation hub for Astwick Green Energy. We’re consulting local people on our changed proposals for a renewable biomethane gas generation plant near the villages of Evenley and Croughton.
Our plans would generate clean energy, contribute to Britain’s energy security and support local farmers.
This website will be updated with information on our new plans and give local residents further opportunities to provide feedback.
At a glance
Our refreshed plans maintain all of the project benefits while reducing impacts on local people:
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Astwick Green Energy will produce biomethane to support the transition to net zero. This is a green fuel that will support our transition to net zero and reduce our dependence on foreign gas supplies.
Our plans will generate enough renewable gas to heat the equivalent of 8,142 households, greater than the number of homes in Brackley.
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We will work hand-in-hand with the local farming industry, providing local farmers with guaranteed revenue and natural fertiliser.
Astwick Green Energy will take organic material, including crops from rotations and manure, from local farms to feed the plant. The same farmers will benefit by receiving the natural fertiliser produced at the end of the gas generation process. This will reduce the amount of expensive and imported artificial fertiliser that local farm businesses need to buy, improving soil health and storing more carbon.
We’ll also create 15 Full Time Equivalent jobs, and support 35 further jobs through the supply chain.
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We put forward a previous proposal for such a development on this site in August 2022. Although this received no objections from technical consultees and the Council’s Planning Team recommended its approval, our planning application was refused in December 2023 because of concerns about its scale, height and massing on the local area, and impacts on the local landscape character.
We have listened to this feedback and have changed our plans.
Through a complete redesign of the scheme, we have prepared new proposals which maintain all of the benefits of clean renewable energy, tackle climate change and support the rural economy, but significantly reduce their scale, height and massing and related local landscape impacts.
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We’ve listened to the feedback from our previous application and taken steps to reduce the impacts of the proposal, with fewer tanks, most of which are lower, minimising the impact on the landscape, but kept all the benefits to the environment and the rural economy.
The buildings at Astwick Green Energy won’t look out of scale from the type of structures, such as barns, often seen on commercial farms.