Council refused plans for solar panel development but energy company are appealing their decision.
A public inquiry has been told that opposition to a planned solar farm was the "biggest ever" challenge to a planning application ever seen in the area.
There have been 500 objections to the scheme, but Harmony said it had listened to local feedback and reduced the size of the solar farm.Deputy mayor of Malton Lindsay Burr and the former Conservative MP for Scarborough and Whitby, Sir Robert Goodwill, were among those to give evidence at the inquiry and both spoke against the plans during the hearing at Ryedale House.
Ms Davies said the Sturdys were successful farmers, with above average output, and the case for developing the land they rent was "not sufficiently justified". He said: "Local people are against this almost unanimously. And there is no suggestion local people would benefit from reduced bills."
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