Cllr Nick Worth, leader of #SHollandDC: "[The Secretary of State] clearly doesn’t grasp how little Grade 1 land there is in the UK and the effect this will have on food production."
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‘There is now a real danger that this will open the flood gates for even more solar farms’ Fears have been raised that a planning inspector’s decision to approve a solar farm will now open the ‘floodgates’ for more developments in this area.

Smothering top farmland in solar panels: #SHollandDC leader Nick Worth loses the battle but lives to tell the tale | @lincsonline.bsky.social | 13 February 2026:
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