Outraged locals living in a Cumbrian market town opposing plans to build a 200-acre solar farm on a beauty spot say it will be a 'blot on the landscape'.
Green energy firm Belltown Power has put forward proposals to install panels on part of the popular dog walking and hikers' spot Dent Fell, in Egremont.
But despite promising it would provide energy for 15,000 homes for the next four decades, people say it would 'destroy its natural beauty'.
Now furious locals have told MailOnline they hope the plans fall through and say they don't want children growing up thinking 'these monstrosities are part of the countryside'.
The landowner of the proposed site and dairy farmer of 50 years Terry Dixon, 79, has hit back in the bitter row arguing that the solar farm wouldn't be visible for large parts of the fell.
