article_snippet: However, it was awarded planning permission late last year without ever being discussed by the council’s planning committee.
article_snippet: The council planning committee never discussed or voted on the solar farm because the local ward member, Lib Dem Alan Connett, decided not to refer the solar farm – as he was entitled to do.
article_snippet: Other councillors were more vociferous.
article_snippet: I would very much have liked it to go to The council planning committee.
article_snippet: That so much pristine countryside can be swallowed without anyone picking this up through the democratic process suggests the system has failed.
article_snippet: We’ve ended up with an eyesore when We have no need for an eyesore.
highlights_snippet: Council say development is ‘not sympathetic to character of the locality’
  