Meanwhile, supporters said the landscape’s beauty was already affected by the nearby M6. <\/p>\n
Shap Parish Council unanimously opposed the plan, saying it was “excessive” and, if a cable was put through the village as planned, would cause “untold problems” with traffic as well as damaging local utility supplies.<\/p>\n
The applicants said the scheme would support national energy policy with solar farms a “key component” of moving from fossil fuels to renewable sources.<\/p>\n
They also said it would create local jobs and have a “positive impact on the local community”, while its visual effect would be mitigated to blend in with the surrounding area.<\/p>\n
Council officials said they were recommending the scheme be rejected because it was a “major industrial-esque development” which would cause an “unacceptably disproportionate environmental cost” to an “undulating area of open countryside”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, supporters said the landscape’s beauty was already affected by the nearby M6. Shap Parish Council unanimously opposed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-355700","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\/355700","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=355700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}