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Plans to cover a swathe of high grade agricultural land in North Yorkshire with solar panels have sparked a wave of opposition.

The last week has seen more than 100 objections lodged to Harmony Energy’s planned solar farm beside the former Second World War.

Plans to cover a swathe of high grade agricultural land in North Yorkshire with solar panels have sparked a wave of opposition, despite the firm behind the scheme radically reducing the size of the venture.

The last week has seen more than 100 objections lodged to Harmony Energy’s planned solar farm beside the former Second World War prisoner-of-war site at Eden Camp, Old Malton, with some branding the potential loss of best and most versatile graded farmland as “ludicrous” and even “monstrous”.

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