'UK's biggest solar project puts my farm future at risk'

FURIOUS campaigners have branded the Government a “dictatorship”, after Energy Secretary Ed Miliband pushed through the UK’s biggest solar farm on agricultural land.

- By Eleanor Burleigh

The Tillbridge Solar project was approved for a 3,000-acre site in Lincolnshire last week despite widespread opposition from councillors, MPs and landowners amid Labour's latest stride towards its net zero goals.

Nick Hill, 55, a farmer in West Lindsey, Gainsborough, could be most affected, with a potential cable corridor for the project earmarked for his newly acquired estate.

The plan’s status as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) means that those behind it can apply for Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPO), leaving Mr Hill no choice but to take the compensation.

'ECO DICTATOR': Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is under fire for plans

By Eleanor Burleigh

tion. "I bought all the land we have here myself," he said. "If they get permission to put cables under the fields, it will massively impact our future here."