First UK residents to face compulsory purchase of homes for solar farm

Residents in three ‘Domesday villages’ fear their homes will be the first in Britain to be compulsorily purchased to make way for the country’s biggest-ever solar farm. Dozens of villagers living in Hempnall, Saxlingham and Tasburgh in Norfolk have received letters from a developer saying their homes ‘may be required’ to create space for East Pye Solar Project. The development will cover a massive 2,500 acres – the equivalent of 1,762 football pitches or the size of Chichester in West Sussex – and is 10 times bigger than the UK’s current largest in Flintshire, Wales.