UK's second biggest commercial greenhouse in Redcar

The greenhouse would be the second largest commercial greenhouse in the UK. Redcar and Cleveland Council has signed an option to lease agreement with the firm Oasthouse Ventures, which is behind the proposed project, on the Manor Farm site behind Kirkleatham Business Park.

According to council cabinet papers, the operation could remove thousands of tonnes of carbon as part of the growing process. The council, which agreed to a new climate change strategy last year, is aiming to be carbon neutral by 2030.

Oasthouse already operates more than 70 acres of high-tech greenhouses in the south of England, using waste heat left over from water treatments to power them. In 2018 it helped fund Grovida, a Portuguese company developing growing and processing facilities for medicinal grade cannabis products.

Continue reading.

Image by DCStudio on Freepik

Source: Msn