Environment Correspondent, BBC News
BBCA couple said plans that would leave their rural retirement cottage “surrounded by 15ft (4.5m) solar panels” were “devastating”.
Mandy Goodhand and Stevie Johnson-Mansley bought their cottage in rural Lincolnshire in 2020 to renovate and retire to.
However, three years later they received a “knock on the door” from a local farmer to inform them the surrounding fields were being leased to make way for solar panels.
The couple’s MP Dr Caroline Johnson, the Conservative MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham, has secured a debate on the impact of large scale solar farms in the House of Commons later.
“I will be putting forwards the concerns both I and my constituents share about large-scale solar farms and their impact on agricultural land and our local area,” she said.
