{"id":27006,"date":"2025-07-27T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/27006\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T10:23:08","slug":"yorkshire-wolds-aonb-status-backed-by-combined-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/27006\/","title":{"rendered":"Yorkshire Wolds AONB status backed by combined authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the combined authority&#8217;s executive board meeting on Friday, Hull and East Yorkshire Mayor Luke Campbell asked whether the designation would protect the area from solar farms construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stephen Hunt, director of planning and development at East Riding Council, said: &#8220;It does raise the bar for new developments in terms of what would be allowed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Large-scale proposals like solar farms and large wind turbines would have an impact on the landscape and would be more severely controlled by an AONB designation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anne Handley, leader of East Riding Council, asked whether farmers who wanted to build on their land would be subject to special planning regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Hunt said some planning rights might be removed, but the authority could work with landowners to try to reach solutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the idea goes ahead, the AONB would cover about 180 sq miles (465 sq km).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Natural England said the Yorkshire Wolds included &#8220;dramatic steep-sided dry valleys, high but gentle escarpments, dramatic coastal cliffs and open, rolling agricultural plateaux&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added: &#8220;Natural and cultural heritage in the area includes ancient woodland, species-rich grasslands, chalk streams, Iron Age settlements, abandoned medieval villages and Georgian manors and parkland.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the combined authority&#8217;s executive board meeting on Friday, Hull and East Yorkshire Mayor Luke Campbell asked whether&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-27006","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\/27006","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=27006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}