{"id":519980,"date":"2026-04-08T18:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519980\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:05:08","slug":"government-approves-uks-largest-solar-farm-in-lincolnshire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519980\/","title":{"rendered":"Government approves UK&#8217;s largest solar farm in Lincolnshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m fuming,&#8221; Williams said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It shows a completely, complete lack of democratic accountability in this country.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said Energy Secretary Ed Milliband had &#8220;taken no account of the local views of people and he&#8217;s just ridden roughshod across the community and will basically destroy approximately 4,000 acres just in this area alone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local Conservative councillor Rob Kendrick, who spoke against the project at the inquiry, described the decision as &#8220;sad news for Lincolnshire and its residents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Very disappointed but not surprised,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are no beneficiaries in terms of the people of Lincolnshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The landscape will be changed. Tourism is worth \u00a32bn to Lincolnshire and that will be impacted.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;m fuming,&#8221; Williams said. &#8220;It shows a completely, complete lack of democratic accountability in this country.&#8221; He said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-519980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519980","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=519980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}