Decision to allow 14,000 solar panel farm in Shropshire 'undemocratic', say campaigners
A second large scale solar farm will be built in the south of the county, despite being refused by Shropshire Council.
The 14,200 panel solar farm has been at High Point, Neen Sollars, near Cleobury Mortimer, is to go ahead despite hundreds of objections and a previous refusal by Shropshire Council's south planning committee.
The committee's decision has been overturned by a government planning inspector on appeal, and follows a similar case at Henley Bank, Acton Scott, where a permission for a solar farm was granted on appeal in January.
Ludlow MP Philip Dunne said he was "very disappointed" the solar farm had been pushed through, and Peter Van Duijvenvoorde, chair of campaign group Save South Shropshire Countryside, called the decision "undemocratic".
He said it was a worrying reversal of the trend not to allow large solar farms on farmland in south Shropshire, which meant other landowners would now be encouraged to put in yet more applications for panels.
