{"id":215576,"date":"2025-10-21T13:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215576\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:49:11","slug":"concerns-over-cornwall-being-sold-off-after-solar-farm-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215576\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns over Cornwall being &#8216;sold off&#8217; after solar farm approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Cornwall farmer claims the county is being &#8220;sold off&#8221; in a bid to hit net zero energy targets after plans for a 125,000-panel solar farm were approved. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The scheme, near the A30 at Carland Cross, was turned down last year by Cornwall Council, but has since been approved by national inspectors after an appeal by the developers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Campaigner Marie Wills said she tried for years to overturn the solar application, and said she felt &#8220;the government are trying to sell Cornwall off just to hit net-zero&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Downing Renewable Developments (DRD) said the the site would include sheep grazing and biodiversity improvements, as well as free solar panels for roofs of neighbouring people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cornwall farmer claims the county is being &#8220;sold off&#8221; in a bid to hit net zero energy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-215576","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\/215576","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=215576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}