SIR: There is a nice irony to your decision to print the report about the proposed Godsfield solar farm (Page 18, February 18) with the article about the disused Bushfield Camp on the opposite page. Derelict sites such as this must surely present an opportunity for more solar energy without major damage to the environment.

Few people today will dispute the need for more electricity generation, but for the so-called 'green' group Winchester Action on Climate Change to support the Godsfield application beggars belief. Why is it apparently necessary to attempt to blot our wonderful countryside and valuable agricultural land with solar panels, when there are probably thousands of acres of warehouse and factory roofs in Hampshire alone which have no panels on them? If agricultural land must be used, then sites adjacent to motorways, railways etc (i.e. areas which are already spoilt by existing developments) should surely be preferred, as can be seen on the Alresford by-pass.

John Cavendish,

The Street,

Farringdon,

Alton