An East Ayrshire farm has been given the go ahead to install 1,000 solar panel modules on land which was home to the area’s first ironworks in the 1700s.
Alan Blackwood, of Auldhouseburn Farm, applied to install the 200kW of ground mounted panels which will be laid out in rows alongside Furnace Road right at the edge of the Muirkirk boundary.
While there were no objections, the West of Scotland Archaeology Service pointed out the historic value of the site and stressed the need to monitor it for finds during development.
