From pylons to solar farms, 2025 is all about the big stuff

From pylons to solar farms, huge infrastructure projects are planned across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, despite strong local opposition. Environment correspondent Paul Murphy looks at what 2025 could bring.

It is set to be the year of the “big stuff”.

Civil servants call them “nationally significant infrastructure projects”. But like a bellyful of Christmas turkey, it’s a phrase that weighs heavily on the eyelids. So let’s stick with “big stuff”. And… you’re back in the room.

Pylons, solar farms, wind farms, power stations and pipelines. The proposals…