UK’s largest solar farm ‘will destroy north Kent landscape’
Kent is known as "the Garden of England", but a swathe of its farmland could be covered with 900,000 panels if the UK’s largest solar farm is approved this week.
Cleve Hill Solar Park, covering 958 acres on Kent's north coast near the ancient town of Faversham, would have such an impact on the landscape that it has caused a schism among green groups that normally support low-carbon energy schemes.
Friends of the Earth supports it while Greenpeace has joined the Campaign to Protect Rural England and the local Green Party to oppose the "industrialising of the countryside".
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