LETTERS in the Review  for and against  industrial-type solar farms miss out one hugely important point.

The infrastructure necessary to carry the power generated by solar or wind farms is huge, expensive and ugly because the amount of power generated needs pylon-type structures to transmit it.

Solar panels on houses do not need this because the electricity created is mostly used by the house and the wires used to transmit energy to the house are quite capable of taking any surplus energy.

Then, of course, all these arguments for and against are a waste of time. Basically no planning permission has been legally granted because the law bars any group lower than the full council determining planning permissions.

This is a quite sensible law because it stops a small group of councillors being approached with bribes or even accusations of bribery where none has been taken.

All the councillors know this because I have told them.

None of them have the bottle to stop this which could be easily done by raising a point of order at the next full council meeting.

The present process used is undemocratic because local people's views cannot be discussed at a full council meeting and is contrary to the Local Authorities (Functions and Responsibilities) (England) Regulations 2000.

– John Timbrell, Drybrook. Editor's note: The council says decision-making on planning applications has been delegated to the planning committee. A spokeswoman said that is entirely legal and consistent with practice across the country.