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Large-scale solar farm will take out productive farmland

Proposals for a new solar farm spanning parts of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire which will see agricultural land taken out of production have faced strong opposition from local farmers.

Hannah Binns
News Reporter
clock 鈥� 1 min read
Large-scale solar farm will take out productive farmland

Mr Hardy said: "We are not against solar panels per se, but when there is a potential of using brownfield sites, why take productive agricultural land out of production? Recent months have seen farmland...

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