Locals win right to veto solar farms in bid to keep to keep panels out of the countryside/The Daily Mail

The chance to veto the building of massive solar farms that blight the countryside is to be given to residents living nearby.

After promising to empower local communities to oppose onshore wind farms, a minister announced last night that sprawling fields of solar panels will also be curbed because they are ‘increasingly controversial’.

Energy minister Greg Barker said: ‘Solar has a big bright future in the UK, but not in any place and not at any price. I want UK solar targeted on industrial roofs, homes and on brownfield sites, not on our beautiful countryside.

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