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"You cannot eat solar" - Greater Lincolnshire Mayor plots Judicial Review bid to stop Gov's approval of UK's largest solar farm

The Government's approval of the UK's largest solar farm in Lincolnshire has kicked up a storm on issues surrounding food security, 'Green' Ed's energy independence ambition, and the potential of a Judicial Review in the High Court

Chris Brayford
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Greater Lincolnshire Mayor Dame Andrea Jenkyns said: "​Yet again, he [Ed Miliband] has ignored common sense and the voices of local people to grant the UK's largest solar farm. At the planning hearing last month, I warned that with escalating global instability, food security is national security. We cannot eat solar panels. I will not roll over while our prime agricultural land is destroyed."
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Greater Lincolnshire Mayor Dame Andrea Jenkyns said: "​Yet again, he [Ed Miliband] has ignored common sense and the voices of local people to grant the UK's largest solar farm. At the planning hearing last month, I warned that with escalating global instability, food security is national security. We cannot eat solar panels. I will not roll over while our prime agricultural land is destroyed."

A Reform UK mayor is assessing the possibility of building a case to take to Judicial Review after the Government approved plans for the UK's largest solar farm development on productive farmland. Greater...

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