Links to earlier news articles.
June 2020
August 2019
January 2019
December 2018
- Video: How to have your say on nationally significant infrastructure projects
- Register now to have your voice heard
- Onwards to Stage 3 (of 6)
- BBC Southeast coverage
- Get ready to register as an Interested Party
- KMTV coverage: Kent MP ready to fight plans for huge Solar park - YouTube
November 2018
- Join us at the Faversham Information Event on Sunday 9th December
- Export, and import?
- Our guide to the application
- Three months late, but the application is now submitted
- On the edge of the solar dream
October 2018
- "Tell your MP to stop the government’s daylight robbery" says 10:10's Support Solar campaign
- Green Party 'fighting the proposed huge 1000 acre solar farm'
- Whitstable Information Event - Saturday 27th October
September 2018
August 2018
- Application date delayed again
- 'Build Britain's biggest solar farm elsewhere'
- What needs to change to combat climate change?
- Make it compulsory for all new homes in England and Wales to have solar panels
- Black Winged Stilts successfully raised on North Kent Farms
- What happens next?
July 2018
- Responses to the 2nd phase consultation
- Helen Whately: "The local impact is simply unacceptable"
- The Faversham Society’s Concerns
- Wildlife Haven or Desert?
- More profit for greenfield exploitation
- Devil in the detail
- How to object
- A Green Future: Our 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment
- GREAT Community Event!
June 2018
- The Canterbury District Green Infrastructure Strategy - have your say
- June 17th is 'World Day to Combat Desertification'
- Graveney Community Day
- The Cleve Hill Mega Battery proposal
- Solar farm plans in Faversham increase to 1,000 acres
- Public events - now on - have your say!
- Chris Packham warns of 'ecological apocalypse' in Britain
- Panoramic views?
- Please register! (was 'Sign our petition')
- Advice for the local community from The Planning Inspectorate
- Forget solar, it's about a mega-mega-battery
- Risk to Schedule 1 birds on Seasalter levels
- Take your time filling in the survey
May 2018
- Last consultation before the application
- Is this 'Sea of Plastic' our future too?
- Great CPRE article and support
- As high as a double-decker bus
- Dates for 2nd phase of consultations finally announced - sort of
- Europe is facing “biodiversity oblivion” on its farmland
April 2018
- 82 green transformer cabins
- Still no news about phase 2 public consultations
- East/west oriented solar panels
March 2018
- Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
- Do you want another nuclear power station?
- Small is beautiful, says UK’s largest solar fund
- Even the Green Party oppose Cleve Hill Solar Farm
- "We just realised how much more we could get"
- Is Graveney the right location for such a large solar development?
- A 300MW development in Spain
- As big as Faversham
February 2018
- Abbey Fields Solar Farm
- Water voles in the news
- "It's a wonderful place to walk"
- Thanet Earth is four times smaller
- A historical map view of Graveney and Nagden Marshes
- Subsidy free is possible at only 10 MW in size
- The scale of UK solar
- Faversham Society: specific and serious concerns
- Follow this site via email
- "See-through solar could enable a shift away from bulky solar panels"
- Helen Whately: “I'm seriously worried about scale of solar farm”
- Janet Street-Porter: "ghastly proposal to cover 890 acres of this lovely wetland with panels"
January 2018
- The Scoping Report - what does it cover?
- The 'Community Project Update' has arrived
- Swale Borough Council had no comments to make on 109 pages of the scoping report
- Examining the "s51 advice"
- What is National Infrastructure?
- The Last Battle Fought on British Soil - The Battle of Graveney Marsh
- Kent Wildlife Trust's view
- Timelapse construction of a 39MW solar farm
- How huge does subsidy-free need to be?
- Why oppose a solar park?
- Please count the wildlife and report it!
December 2017
- Get Involved!
- Guardian: Walk the North Kent Marshes – while the solitude lasts
- Deadline today! End of phase one consultation
- Subsidy-free solar at only 10 MW in size
- How many football pitches?
- The scale of the proposed development
- The flood map
- Medway Estuary and Swale flood and coastal risk management strategy
- KentOnline: Kent Wildlife Trust and RSPB want more details on plans to build huge solar farm near Graveney
- PV Magazine: Wirsol to acquire two ‘subsidy free’ solar projects in the UK
- Helen Whately listens to Graveney residents