{"id":186032,"date":"2025-10-08T17:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186032\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:57:08","slug":"seaham-solar-farm-faces-objection-over-toilet-waste-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/186032\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaham solar farm faces objection over toilet waste fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A plan for a massive solar farm is facing an objection over fears toilet waste could pollute local waterways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Agency (EA) said it had concerns about temporary toilets installed during the construction of the 80ha (200 acre) solar farm at Seaham Grange in Ryhope, near Sunderland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the company behind the scheme, Elements Green Renewables, should resubmit the application with details of how &#8220;foul effluent will be disposed of&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company said it had informed the EA the toilets would not be connected to the water drainage system and would be managed by a licensed contractor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plan for a massive solar farm is facing an objection over fears toilet waste could pollute local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-186032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}