A new gas-fired power station capable of generating up to 299 megawatts of electricity has won development consent from the secretary of state, who decided the benefits outweighed landscape harm. The Nottinghamshire site comprised scrub and grassland within the boundary of an existing site in the countryside that already contained two power stations of a notably larger scale. In this context the examining authority concluded the development would not give rise to significant landscape harm, although the chimney stack would be visible from public rights of way and a nearby village.
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