A west Suffolk councillor has hit out at comments by another community leader amid an ongoing row over a controversial solar farm on the county border.
Richard Rout, deputy cabinet member for major infrastructure projects at Suffolk County Council, slammed West Suffolk Council’s decision to pull out of a four-council legal challenge against plans for Sunnica solar farm.
The challenge was backed by Suffolk County Council, West Suffolk Council, Cambridgeshire County Council and East Cambridgeshire District Council, but was abandoned after West Suffolk Council and Cambridgeshire District Council pulled out.
Cllr Rout previously said he was “deeply disappointed” and believed the move was “100% political.”
Cllr Richard Rout (Image: SCC)
However, Jon London, Liberal Democrat councillor for Exning and vice-chair of the development control committee at West Suffolk Council, said: “A judicial review on this scale is a very expensive…
