Plans have been lodged to build a 3,000-panel solar farm on green belt land near Rotherham. Downing Renewables wants to develop a 6.6 hectare site to the north of West Lane in Aughton, on land owned by Yorkshire Water.

Proposals are being explored for a solar farm that developers say would power all the households in Witney, Oxfordshire.

Building solar farms on farmland instead of adding panels to new homes is "madness", BBC Politics East has been told. On the programme's Your Shout segment, Bengt Larson, from Bury St Edmunds, criticised plans to build huge solar farms on agricultural land when new homes were being built without panels.