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Waiting to Credit Marvels

on global justice, climate change, cricket, living in Winchester and other trials of patience

Glebe Farm, Waltham Chase, solar planning application

Discussion about interesting features of the solar farm planning application at Glebe Farm, Waltham Chase

Published July 2, 2025
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged renewable energy, solar farms, winchester

Electricity Generation in Winchester District: 2025 Report

Annual update of data on electricity and renewable energy in Winchester District, noting the local implications of Clean Power 2030.

Published June 2, 2025
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged renewable energy, winchester

Grid decarbonisation dilemma for South Downs National Park

The draft Local Plan for the South Downs National Park permits only small scale renewable energy projects. Is this fair?

Published March 13, 2025
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Clean Power 2030, renewable energy, south downs national park

Winchester Station Approach masterplan

My comments on the plans for redevelopment of the area around Winchester Station. Once again a total blindspot on the crucial question of energy.

Published October 27, 2024
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged renewable energy, winchester

Local Plan timetables overtaken by grid decarbonisation

My response to the Regulation 19 phase of the new Local Plan for Winchester District. The energy crisis is no less important than housing.

Published October 18, 2024
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged renewable energy, winchester

Sir John Moore Barracks masterplan

My response to the public consultation on the proposed development of the Barracks. No sign of onsite energy generation to power 800 homes.

Published October 11, 2024
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged housing estates, renewable energy, winchester

Renewable Energy in Winchester District: 2024 Report

Annual update of data on electricity in Winchester District, noting gaps in commercial rooftop solar data and flaws in the 2023 Council Plan.

Published April 29, 2024
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged data centres, non-domestic rooftop, renewable energy, solar farms, winchester

Council Climate Action Scorecards: a fragile theory of change

The Council Climate Action Scorecards published by Climate Emergency UK deliver valuable data. But is this a priority for climate campaigners?

Published February 8, 2024
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate change, local government

Equity in cricket: let’s leave history out of it

The ICEC report anchors its conclusions on evidence of discrimination and exclusion in the history of cricket. Is this a sound approach?

Published September 25, 2023
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cricket

Renewable Energy in Winchester District: 2023 Report

Annual update of data on electricity generated in Winchester District, focusing on growth in local rooftop solar.

Published May 31, 2023
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged LAEP, MCS data, renewable energy, rooftop solar, winchester

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A blog by Bill Gunyon

Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things