At the combined authority’s executive board meeting on Friday, Hull and East Yorkshire Mayor Luke Campbell asked whether the designation would protect the area from solar farms construction.<\/p>\n
Stephen Hunt, director of planning and development at East Riding Council, said: “It does raise the bar for new developments in terms of what would be allowed.<\/p>\n
“Large-scale proposals like solar farms and large wind turbines would have an impact on the landscape and would be more severely controlled by an AONB designation.”<\/p>\n
Anne Handley, leader of East Riding Council, asked whether farmers who wanted to build on their land would be subject to special planning regulations.<\/p>\n
Mr Hunt said some planning rights might be removed, but the authority could work with landowners to try to reach solutions.<\/p>\n
If the idea goes ahead, the AONB would cover about 180 sq miles (465 sq km).<\/p>\n
Natural England said the Yorkshire Wolds included “dramatic steep-sided dry valleys, high but gentle escarpments, dramatic coastal cliffs and open, rolling agricultural plateaux”.<\/p>\n
It added: “Natural and cultural heritage in the area includes ancient woodland, species-rich grasslands, chalk streams, Iron Age settlements, abandoned medieval villages and Georgian manors and parkland.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the combined authority’s executive board meeting on Friday, Hull and East Yorkshire Mayor Luke Campbell asked whether…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-295577","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\/114924596596271378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295577","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=295577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}