{"id":8420,"date":"2014-08-30T16:54:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T15:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=8420"},"modified":"2014-08-30T16:54:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T15:54:06","slug":"solar-farm-community-proposal-for-uks-first-aonb-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8420","title":{"rendered":"Solar farm community proposal for UK\u2019s first AONB fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A community group bidding to build a five-acre solar farm on Swansea&#8217;s Gower Peninsula, the UK&#8217;s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) has failed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The BBC writes<\/span>:<br \/>\nGower Power Cooperative had asked to install 4,000 panels on a 15-acre (six hectare) site on the Gower peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Planning officers had recommended approval on the basis there would be \u2018no significant visual impact\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>But after 27 people wrote letters objecting to the plans, the application was rejected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-28973280\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Wales news\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A community group bidding to build a five-acre solar farm on Swansea&#8217;s Gower Peninsula, the UK&#8217;s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) has failed. The BBC writes: Gower Power Cooperative had asked to install 4,000 panels on a 15-acre &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8420\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8421,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions\/8421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}