The Planning Inspectorate reviewed Broadland District Council’s decision to reject OPDE UK’s plans for a 100-acre solar farm in Alderford, near Lenwade.

The council's planning committee had blocked the scheme, known as Plough Meadow, at a meeting in March.

Councillors said the scheme would take some of the county’s best farmland out of production.

But Paul Thompson, the planning inspector, overturned the decision, saying the solar farm would help the government reach net zero by 2050.

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