“This proposal is much too big, it would be a blot on the landscape… This is a money-making scheme by developers who don’t live in the area. We should be introducing much more diversity in solar energy – new build roofs, supermarkets and car park roofs – not ugly metal fields”

“We have to move to greener energy, but this isn’t the right way – this is on a scale which will have a massive impact on the locality”

“We don’t need to give up prime farmland for solar panels – put them on houses and the roofs of commercial buildings”

“The fact that the developer says this will take three years to build using up to 850 workers a day, and more than 7,000 deliveries, says it all – it’s highly industrial, it’s a nonsense to describe it as temporary, and the environmental impact of the materials and development alone means it should be stopped”

“Why are these solar sites not being located on land that’s unsuitable for agriculture?”

“This would be a blight on the landscape” 

“How does industrialising the countryside save the planet?”

“Panels should be mandatory for new build housing and industrial builds and not put on good food-producing farmland”

“Fill up roof space first”

“Put solar panels on buildings, not productive, beautiful countryside”

“This scheme would be an abomination”  

“I am very much in favour of clean energy, but not at the expense of the land” 

“Solar should be completely banned on farmland. There is no case for it. Solar should only be allowed on rooftops, car parks and brownfield sites”

“Solar power is good but a plan on this massive scale is damaging… It needs repositioning across a much wider area in smaller chunks”

“Put solar power over car parks, not on our countryside”

“Stop using good quality farmland and put the panels on factories, warehouses and car parks. It should be a condition of planning that all new industrial sites incorporate maximum solar panels. Keep farmland to feed us all”

“Why on earth like in other countries are we not building them over car parks? They’re dead space anyway!”