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

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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

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

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

Lost sporting prints from the pubs of Winchester

Pubs have had a terrible time over Covid. But that’s no excuse for the disappearance of my four favourite sporting prints in Winchester pubs.

Published July 23, 2022
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cricket, winchester

Renewable Energy in Winchester District: 2022 Report

This report details the amount of electricity generated in Winchester District and discusses an appropriate local target for 2050

Published February 28, 2022
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged LAEP, renewable energy, solar farms, winchester

Ignore the elephant in the Itchen at our peril

How can Winchester City Council announce a flood defences scheme without mentioning climate change? It feels as though there’s an embargo on the phrase which is not good for policy-making or for the design of this important scheme.

Published January 20, 2019
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate adaptation, flood defences, 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