{"id":252933,"date":"2025-07-10T07:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252933\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T07:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:53:10","slug":"plans-for-solar-farm-rejected-to-stop-county-becoming-solarshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252933\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans for solar farm rejected to stop county becoming &#8216;Solarshire&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hartpury, Rudford and Highleadon parish councils said if the application was approved, it would mean at least 700 acres of farmland would be dedicated to solar farms within a five to 10-mile (eight to 16km) radius.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The councils added that each of the three solar farms proposed in the Newent area would be among the largest five in England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newent Town Council raised concerns about overdevelopment, overshadowing of properties, road safety, and the installation of solar panels on land successfully used to grow crops for more than 25 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The committee voted to reject the proposals by eight votes to one with one abstention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hartpury, Rudford and Highleadon parish councils said if the application was approved, it would mean at least 700&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-252933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114827866920445120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}