{"id":729038,"date":"2026-08-06T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729038\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:00:17","slug":"third-solar-site-bid-for-area-near-planned-mega-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729038\/","title":{"rendered":"Third solar site bid for area near planned mega-farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the Dykewood project was approved <a href=\"https:\/\/democracy.breckland.gov.uk\/documents\/g5475\/Public%20reports%20pack%2004th-Aug-2026%2010.00%20Planning%20Committee.pdf?T=10\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at a planning meeting, external<\/a> on Tuesday, questions were raised about how it would benefit local people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michael Westman, a Reform UK councillor, asked officials about what perks would be offered to the two communities affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, the councillor for Thetford Priory said there was &#8220;little benefit&#8221; from what he could see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Representatives of the developer have insisted there will be a community benefit fund of \u00a310,000 per year for the 40-year lifetime of the scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And council officials argued the community benefit was the provision of solar energy, with the scheme able to power 18,000 homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillors backed the proposals, with seven votes in favour and three against.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Dykewood project was approved at a planning meeting, external on Tuesday, questions were raised about how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-729038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729038","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=729038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}