Save Radnor Forest
Stop Nant Mithil energy park
The Nant Mithill Energy Park planning application is now live and we have 5 weeks to December 23rd 2025 to respond.
This is the last chance you have to stop the rape of this beautiful area and its communities by foreign carpetbaggers and investors with no interest in Mid Wales
Background
In May 2024 Bute Energy progressed its flagship Nant Mithil Energy Park to the formal stage by holding a statutory consultation. To that end a promotional brochure and a revised web site with approximately 1500 pages of technical documents was released and 3 consultations were held, staffed largely by bought in technical “experts” with little knowledge of the area concerned or wider issues. No directors of Bute Energy or the Nant Mithil Energy Park bothered to attend. The statutory consultation ended on June 24th 2024 and over 700 responses were received by the company. As this was a statutory consultation the company is obliged to deal with these responses in detail in a consultation report to PEDW as part of the planning process.
On December 20th 2024 Bute Energy submitted a planning application however on 18th February 2025 the Planning Inspector from PEDW (Planning and Environment Decisions Wales) wrote informing them that the Environmental Statement could not be verified as it was incomplete. The application was therefore put on hold whilst Bute's outdated surveys relating to birds, bats, badgers water vole and otter were updated. On October 14th 2025 new surveys were submitted and on November 3rd PEDW accepted the Environmental Statement as complete. On November 18th the full planning application with supporting documents amounting to several thousand pages was published
What next
We and our consultants now have five weeks to December 23rd to go through the documents and make our comments to PEDW. At the end of this period PEDW will examine the application, possibly with a public hearing part way through the process, before reaching a recommendation in several months’ time. As this is a DNS application (Development of National Significance) the final decision will be made by the Welsh Government Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning (currently Rebecca Evans correspondence.Rebecca.Evans@gov.wales ) who may or may not follow the recommendation of the planning inspector.
Responding to the planning application
To whom should I write?
Email PEDW at PEDW.Infrastructure@gov.wales quoting the case number DNS CAS-01907-D7Q6Z1- Nant Mithil Energy Park. If you prefer to use the post, the postal address is Planning and Environment Decisions Wales, Crown Buildings, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ. You may also wish to send a copy to your local politicians and the relevant ministers. For contact email addresses see rethink.wales/links.
How should I write my letter?
Ideally put together your own personalised letter using any of the headline points listed here or any other personal views that you want to express We will shortly be providing an AI tool to help with this but in the meantime some tips:
Don’t write a book but make sure you have said everything you want to say as succinctly as you can.
Don't feel you have to write about everything - pick up to 10 topics that you feel strongly about and find out as much about them as you can.
Make sure you are commenting on the application and basing your objection on facts and evidence - just saying that you don't like wind turbines, for example, won't have any effect.
Be aware of the sort of things that won't be counted - potential impact on property prices, for example, personal circumstances, or a spoiled view.
Be polite. A rant won't get you anywhere and will just irritate the inspectors.
Finally include your full name, address and email address and request acknowledgement of receipt. PEDW will protect your data.
Where can I get the detail to support my concerns
Resources including the Planning Application, Key Facts and headline points can be found in the resources section to the right. These will be updated and added to during the response period so please check the site