Plans for more than half of the major solar farms are from companies at least partly based abroad. A campaigning against the plans says it means Lincolnshire land would “no longer be in local control”.

The Local Democracy Reporting Service found at least six of the 11 biggest proposals were connected by companies based in France, Canada or Denmark. The applications are sometimes submitted by specially created companies, although publicly available information can be used to find who owns them.

Councillor Marianne Overton (Ind) said: “Handing over English farmland to global investors for the next 40 to 60 years, or more, means it is no longer in local control and no longer available should we need the land for basic food or anything else in the future.

"We were very angry about selling o

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