'It's madness!' Furious Britons hit out at plans for UK's largest solar farm amid fears of solar panel 'dumping ground'

The Tillbridge Solar project would cover around 3,000 acres (1,214 hectares) and is classified as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project.

Applicants for the farm have also claimed that the solar panels would have the strength to power 300,000 homes.

Speaking to GB News Yorkshire and Humberside reporter Anna Riley, one protester stated: "It's just the the sheer size of it.

"All of these developments have battery storage facilities connected to them, which I don't care who you are. they're dangerous. We built our communities on top of a large aquifer, so if anything goes wrong with those, it'll leach into the aquifer and pollute the water supply."

Another protester fumed: "It's madness. Turning our lovely county into a giant solar farm, absolute madness.

"It's all about greed and money. Foreign companies making massive killings."

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Expressing her concerns for the site, Reform Councillor Ingrid Sheard told GB News she fears the solar farm becoming a "solar panel graveyard".

She said of the demonstration: "The feeling today was extremely strong and it was great to see the number of people that turned out. Also the age range, it was not party political, it was not one sided, it was a total mix.

"People are totally opposed to this, and what they're fearful for is this is prime agricultural land that is being destroyed for no reason at all. It's actually been proven that these solar panels will not actually save people money on their energy bills."

Disregarding claims that the farm will create more than a thousand jobs, Ms Sheard explained: "That's not actually true, the jobs that will be created will be created short term while the solar panels are being put in place.

"Once in place, those jobs vanish again and they're not particularly going to be local people, they're going to be people who potentially have the skills but may be brought in from outside. So I think that is actually not potentially true."

Claiming that the farmer who owns the land was "forced" into the decision and is now appealing it, the Reform councillor told GB News: "The farmer, Nick Hill, who actually owns this piece of land, has been forced into a compulsory purchase order that he is appealing against currently. So this is being forced on him, and it's unfair and he doesn't want it.

"The problem we have in Lincolnshire is we are becoming the dumping ground. The statistics show that there will be over 60,000 square metres of land taken up, and it's prime agricultural land. This land should be used to feed Britain. It's absolutely absurd that we think that we can use this land for solar panels."

Joining locals at the protest, Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice told GB News: "This is an absolute disgrace. Lincolnshire is planned to be covered by hundreds of square miles of solar panels.

"This is fantastic agricultural farmland for food security, and we need that. No one in Lincolnshire wants all of these solar panels."