A tenant farmer fears “a pretty dramatic” impact on his livelihood if a proposed solar farm on the land he works goes ahead.<\/p>\n
Rob Alderson, a third-generation farmer near the village of Onibury in south Shropshire, said he thought the development would be more detrimental to his livelihood than “if HS2 went through” his farm.<\/p>\n
He said the solar panels would cover 90 acres of land, but due to the location of the suggested site, 130 acres would be taken out of use.<\/p>\n
A planning application has not been submitted, but an initial screening for where the site could be built has started.<\/p>\n
The developer has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n
Alderson, who has been on the same land next to the A47 for five decades, said any compensation he could get would be “peanuts” as he rented the land.<\/p>\n
“When you’re looking at a third of the farm that you’re farming, then the actual effect it’s going to have on my livelihood is going to be pretty dramatic.”<\/p>\n
Alderson continued and said as he is a beef, sheep and cereal farmer, he would struggle to “regulate, rotate, and have room for moving stock round”. <\/p>\n
“Getting left with such a small perimeter will be an end to this farm,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tenant farmer fears “a pretty dramatic” impact on his livelihood if a proposed solar farm on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-667060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667060","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=667060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}