{"id":322789,"date":"2025-08-06T15:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322789\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T15:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:09:11","slug":"plans-for-large-solar-farm-near-former-colliery-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322789\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans for large solar farm near former colliery revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Planning documents submitted by Renewable Connections Development said dioversity at the farm would be boosted by barn owl boxes, bird nesting boxes, beehives, log piles and small, buried rubble piles for reptiles, amphibians and insects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company said a four-week public consultation held earlier this year revealed concerns over arable land being lost and construction traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, people acknowledged the need for renewable energy and the biodiversity proposals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The site is in an area with 13 other solar farms, arrays, renewable energy stations, wind turbines and clay works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People are able to submit views on the plans on the council&#8217;s website until 28 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Planning documents submitted by Renewable Connections Development said dioversity at the farm would be boosted by barn owl&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-322789","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\/114982457671531448","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322789","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=322789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}