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If proposals currently being considered go through, compulsory purchase orders could be used to turn this green land into Britain s biggest solar farm .
A proposal for the largest solar energy farm in the UK is now likely to have been submitted to the government – but campaigners describe the public consultation process as ‘woeful’.
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AST AUTUMN, a woman in Freckenham, a pretty Suffolk village, accepted a bid for her house from a London couple who had looked around it. After researching Sunnica Energy Farm, a proposed solar farm of 2,700 acres the size of over a thousand football pitches the couple came down for another visit and stopped off at the pub, where the farm was the main topic of conversation. They backed out. The following week, as she was preparing for another viewing, the estate agent rang to say the prospective purchasers had arrived in Freckenham, but after seeing a high street plastered with “Say No to Sunnica” posters, had kept on driving.
Horrifying Sunnica solar farm the size of 900 football pitches opposed by two government ministers
The solar plant would take up much of the rural landscape
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The landscape could become more industrial (Image: Say No to Sunnica)
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A ‘horrifying’ solar farm that would see large swathes of rural land lost has been criticised by government ministers.