{"id":546380,"date":"2026-04-23T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546380\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:29:15","slug":"wiltshire-solar-farm-approved-despite-dumping-ground-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546380\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiltshire solar farm approved despite &#8216;dumping ground&#8217; fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A renewable energy site which led a councillor to label a county as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cr5vry8d93do\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;a dumping ground for solar farms&#8221;<\/a> has been given the green light. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Back in July, Wiltshire Council&#8217;s strategic planning committee turned down plans for a 218-acre (88 hectare) solar farm near Devizes on the grounds it would blight the landscape, with councillor Chris Brautigam adding the county had &#8220;done its bit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rejection of The Potterne Park Farm was then appealed by Potterne Solar Project Limited, the company behind the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Planning inspector Cullum Parker gave it the go ahead and said although there would be &#8220;some harm to the character and appearance&#8221; of the area, it would be &#8220;very limited and very localised&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A renewable energy site which led a councillor to label a county as &#8220;a dumping ground for solar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-546380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546380","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=546380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}