{"id":400754,"date":"2026-01-31T14:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/400754\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:46:16","slug":"lime-down-solar-farm-plan-draws-unprecedented-public-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/400754\/","title":{"rendered":"Lime Down solar farm plan draws &#8216;unprecedented&#8217; public response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It would include solar arrays, battery storage facilities, and a 22km cable route corridor through the county to Melksham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project, the Lime Down planning application will not be determined by Wiltshire Council, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Local Democracy Reporting Service reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead, the Planning Inspectorate will listen to the arguments for and against the development before making a recommendation to the secretary of state for energy, Ed Miliband, who will make the final decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The current Liberal Democrat-led cabinet of Wiltshire Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czx3kg5p7xvo\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opposes the project, <\/a>as was the case with the previous Conservative-led cabinet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A final decision is expected in late 2026 or early 2027 following the examination process, which is expected to take six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It would include solar arrays, battery storage facilities, and a 22km cable route corridor through the county to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-400754","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\/400754","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=400754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}