{"id":210369,"date":"2025-10-19T05:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/210369\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T05:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:49:15","slug":"developer-behind-uks-biggest-solar-farm-attempts-to-buy-locals-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/210369\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer behind UK&#8217;s biggest solar farm &#8216;attempts to buy locals&#8217; silence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson from Island Green Power said: &#8220;The wording on objecting to the project is not in our standard heads of terms and should not have been included.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Heads of terms are voluntary agreements, and landowners are not obliged to sign them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;However, any who choose to sign will also be able to object to the project and make representations to the Planning Inspectorate if that is what they wish to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The solar park has been designated as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP), which means the application will be decided by the Secretary of State, and not Wiltshire Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A decision is expected within the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson from Island Green Power said: &#8220;The wording on objecting to the project is not in our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-210369","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\/210369","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=210369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}