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Putting in a solar farm industrialises the countryside and changes the character of the area for ever. It is causing huge upset to many who live in rural environments and are threatened with a solar development on their doorsteps. Many feel very threatened and the level of distress is incredibly high. When you drive through areas where solar farms have been proposed, there are often masses of signs along the roads from people demonstrating against them. This is happening in many areas of the country—Lincolnshire, Suffolk, Essex, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire and County Durham to name some. This situation was epitomised by an article in the Daily Telegraph last weekend about the solar farm proposed near Mike Rutherford’s house in Sussex.