CPRE responds to the government’s solar roadmap

CPRE responds to the government’s solar roadmap

Posted on Jul 09, 2025 by jsw  | Tags: Solar Energy

There’s good news – and campaign wins for CPRE – in the government’s new plan for how solar will play its part in getting us to net zero. But there’s a big gap on solving the problems of big solar on the ground, and that could spell bad news for the countryside if nothing changes.

We’ve been championing the rooftop revolution since before the Secretary of State used the phrase, so we strongly welcome the increased policy focus on knocking down the barriers to more rooftops generating clean and cheap power.

Particularly, we welcome the further detail on plans for solutions that we have been forwarding – for rooftop solar on new and existing homes and for accelerating getting solar on the huge amount of wasted space on commercial warehousing roofs.

To read more go to https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/cpre-responds-to-solar-roadmap/