A new solar farm is set to be built at Bassingbourn Barracks, which the Ministry of Defence (MoD) hopes will save the same amount of carbon emissions as taking more than 650 cars off the road. South Cambridgeshire District Council has granted planning permission for the new solar farm to be built at the military base, off the A1198. Officers said the solar farm will “provide a meaningful contribution to the low carbon energy generation of the wider site”. Ground mounted solar panels are due to be installed across 1.15ha of the military base. The MoD said the new solar farm would produce 2.3meg…