Lincoln<\/a>, around the A46 and Witham St Hughes, for up to 60 years.<\/p>\nIts size was compared to a \u2018London borough\u2019 by North Kesteven District councillors as they outlined a litany of complaints with the project.<\/p>\n
An application from Windel Energy and Recurrent Energy is expected to be determined by the Government in 2026.<\/p>\n
Of the 14 planning matters the council can consider, it believes that the solar farm would negatively impact eight of these: landscape and visual impact, ecology and biodiversity, cultural heritage, glint and glare, soil and agricultural land, fire safety, cumulative effects and rights of way.<\/p>\n
Two of the impacts are expected to be positive, and others would be neutral or could go either way.<\/p>\n
Ian Carrington told the planning committee on Monday (December 15): \u201cThe cumulative impact in North Kesteven and Lincolnshire as a whole is absolutely enormous.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe potential percentage becoming glass would radically change the character of the countryside.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marianne Overton, who brought 500 letters of opposition from residents with her, said: \u201cAttractive villages in the rural countryside will find themselves in industrial land.\u201d<\/p>\n
Council leader Richard Wright criticised the idea that the land would be returned to farming after 60 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know the long-term effect of covering land in panels. There\u2019s no evidence for the applicants to say it can be handed back and instantly be put back to use,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
David Suiter said: \u201cIt looks to be the size of a London borough \u2013 or several of them if you consider all the other solar farms being planned.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report will be submitted to the government\u2019s planning inspectors, who will hold a full hearing into the application once it\u2019s submitted next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans for a huge solar farm have triggered multiple objections. The Fosse Green solar farm would be able…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,728,4884,609,257,13738,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-640140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-human-interest","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-newark","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115740377613144404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640140","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=640140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}