East Midlands Mayor shares view on solar farms with huge schemes planned for region

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East Midlands Mayor Claire Ward has laid out her stance on solar farms in response to pressure from campaigners opposed to planned schemes in the region. Prominent schemes in the East Midlands include the 7,000-acre Great North Road Solar Park, north-west of Newark in Nottinghamshire, which could be the largest in the whole of Western Europe, and the 410-acre Oaklands solar farm, between Walton and Rosliston in southern Derbyshire, which when it was filed would have represented the largest in the UK.

At an East Midlands Combined County Authority meeting in Derby today (September 16), Mayor Ward fielded five questions from concerned campaigners, with each receiving an identical response. Richard Gill had said the region “faces several large-scale solar proposals

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