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People moved to tears as calls continue to scrap mega solar farm plans (opens the original)
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Several people were moved to tears as they warned of the threat a proposed 2,700-acre solar farm could have on their lives. Opponents likened the East Pye solar farm to the controversial HS2 railway line as hearings into the future of the Norfolk scheme entered their second day. The highly emotive open floor session on Wednesday morning saw people break down or come close to tears, such is the feeling against the project, which could span land between Great Moulton and Woodton. Kathy Thompson to
Five homes for âsolar centralâ village set to be approved (opens the original)
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New homes could be built in a village dubbed Norfolkâs âSolar Centralâ because of the amount of renewable energy infrastructure due to be installed there. Locals in Great Moulton say that the threat of 1,000 battery units and three substations being placed in the village has already frozen the housing market with properties sitting unsold. However, despite this, plans for a further five new homes could be approved at a meeting next week. Developers want to build the properties on Frith Way
Hearings into huge solar project to begin today (opens the original)
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Hearings deciding the future of one of the countryâs biggest solar farms, which could be built across Norfolk farmland, will begin today. Inspector David Cliff will begin six months of hearings for the East Pye Solar Farm at Dunston Hall, before he makes a recommendation to Miatta Fahnbulleh, the energy secretary. The project is planned across 2,718 acres of South Norfolk countryside, spanning from Great Moulton in the west to Woodton in the east. Much of the scheme will be centred around the
âSolar Centralâ: Village fears being swallowed by giant battery and solar farm (opens the original)
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The East Pye solar farm could soon blanket 2,700 acres of Norfolk farmland in hundreds of thousands of panels. But it is not these structures which are causing most alarm in Great Moulton. The village might lie on the fringe of the sprawling East Pye site but is absolutely central to the scheme. For it is here where the developer plans to create a massive battery site to store energy produced by the panels and transfer it to the National Grid via a nearby pylon route. Three new substations could
More than 60 speakers set to discuss controversial solar farm plans (opens the original)
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More than 60 people have registered to speak at the first in a series of hearings which will decide the fate of a proposed Norfolk solar farm. MPs, county, district and parish councillors, as well as local campaigners, have all asked to speak at the open floor sessions determining the future of the 2,718-acre East Pye scheme. The hearings, which get under way at Dunston Hall next Tuesday at 2pm, will allow locals to make their views on the scheme heard. Forty-five people have been listed to spea
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