27/10/2026
Last nights meeting - well attended !
🚨Our countryside is not the place for a solar land grab.😤
Yesterday, Dr Caroline Johnson hosted a Solar Action Summit in Parliament with Graham Stuart MP, bringing together concerned residents from across the country to speak out about the impact of large-scale industrial solar schemes on their communities.
The Government continues to approve huge solar developments in the wrong places. In Caroline’s constituency of Sleaford and North Hykeham, more than 6,000 hectares or over 15,000 acres of good farmland are threatened by solar farms.
We need more clean energy—but not at the expense of productive farmland, local communities and our countryside. Solar belongs on rooftops, brownfield sites and other suitable land, not sprawled across our best agricultural fields.
The summit brought communities together to share their experiences, hear from MPs and organisations, and make the case for a better approach.
Particularly striking, was an Industrial energy consultant pointing out the cost of excess unwanted power. Our Government has agreed contract price for us electricity users to pay that comes to an extra £2.3m every day in September and October.
It’s time for the Government to rethink its plans for large-scale solar and listen to the people who will live with the consequences.
