{"id":715569,"date":"2026-07-28T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715569\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:04:08","slug":"solar-farm-unlikely-to-affect-lilleshall-landscape-says-natural-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715569\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar farm unlikely to affect Lilleshall landscape, says Natural England"},"content":{"rendered":"

A proposed solar farm in Telford and Wrekin is unlikely to have a significant effect on the landscape it could sit on, Natural England has said.<\/p>\n

The approximate 58 hectare (143 acre) site would sit on land between The Incline and New House Farm in Lilleshall.<\/p>\n

The land was not within, or partly within, sites of special scientific interest, areas of conservation, special protection areas or wetland areas, Natural England, the government’s environmental adviser, said.<\/p>\n

Telford and Wrekin Council is consulting on whether developers Greenvolt Power will have to submit a full environmental impact assessment alongside the planning application later this year.<\/p>\n

However, Natural England told the authority’s planners that the developer must provide information to assess the effect on protected species and plans to deal with that.<\/p>\n

The plans have been met with concerns,<\/a> with Andrew Eade, councillor for the area saying they would “have a massive and detrimental impact on Lilleshall’s natural landscape”, and lead to a loss of much-needed agricultural land.<\/p>\n

A petition against the solar farm also reached more than 460 signatures.<\/p>\n

Consultants for the developer said the land had not been listed as a part of the Shropshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy “suggesting no current data indicating ecological significance.”<\/p>\n

Greenvolt said the development would meet the annual electricity needs of “approximately 11,000 homes”, and that solar farms could “significantly improve biodiversity compared with intensive agriculture”.<\/p>\n

It added that the land would be returned to farmland at the end of the life of the site.<\/p>\n

This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> which covers councils and other public service organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A proposed solar farm in Telford and Wrekin is unlikely to have a significant effect on the landscape…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-715569","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\/715569","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=715569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}