{"id":486315,"date":"2025-10-09T18:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/486315\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T18:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:29:11","slug":"council-passes-motion-opposing-solar-farm-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/486315\/","title":{"rendered":"Council passes motion opposing solar farm plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Green Party in Derbyshire said consent for major schemes was key and that it was important that local people benefitted from developments near them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Green Party councillor Rachael Hatchett said &#8220;It leaves us in a really difficult position&#8230; we need alternative sources of energy, we can&#8217;t just go on as we are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That obviously has to include solar and wind, and to have a blanket ban on that in any part of the county is just ridiculous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The National Farmers Union (NFU) said solar projects on lower-quality agricultural land offered a good diversification option for farmers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Evidence on the ecological impact of solar farms on the land is uncertain, but a <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.lancaster.ac.uk\/portal\/news\/article\/research-sheds-light-on-solar-park-eco-impacts-but-clever-design-offers-a-solution\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent study by Lancaster University, external<\/a> suggested the schemes reduced plant growth and negatively affected soil health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The researchers suggested strategies like raising the height of panels or spreading them out could reduce the effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two-thirds (68%) of the solar panels imported by the UK came from China in 2024, according to HMRC trade data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Party in Derbyshire said consent for major schemes was key and that it was important that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-486315","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\/115345631748258251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486315","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=486315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}