The Government is once again on a collision course with the countryside, this time with its plans to reform local planning ...

And in West Yorkshire, there is the plan to cover Walshaw Moor, above Hebden Bridge, with the country’s biggest onshore windfarm of 65 turbines, each 200m high, which is taller than Blackpool Tower.

More than 1,000 people have objected to plans to build two battery energy storage systems in the North Yorkshire countryside. Plans for the one gigawatt systems at South Kilvington, near Thirsk ...