{"id":188540,"date":"2025-10-09T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/188540\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:24:07","slug":"council-passes-motion-opposing-solar-farm-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/188540\/","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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":188541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-188540","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\/188540","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=188540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}