B5PMB1 Gedney Marsh Wind Farm, Lincolnshire, England. Photograph: John Cairns/Alamy
Good morning.
There was a time under the leadership of David Cameron that the Conservative party had the ambition of becoming the “greenest government ever”. But by the early 2010s the party was marred by significant pushback from Conservative MPs against environmental policies that still plagues the government a decade later. One particular point of contention has been the eight-year ban on the development of onshore windfarms in England. Rules that were ushered in under Cameron meant that a local authority in England can reject an application to build an onshore windfarm on the basis of a single objection from a local resident.
