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Coventry tenant farmer wins solar dispute

Solar developers have been criticised by many in the industry for adopting an opportunistic approach to obtain tenanted land where a ‘cheap grid connection' could be sourced

Rachael Brown
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Coventry tenant farmer wins solar dispute

A tenant farmer from Coventry has won his campaign to stop his council landlord developing a solar farm on ‘productive farmland'. Since 1967, Eddie Dewes has farmed mainly sheep and arable across 41.7...

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