We’ve had to change our email address due to a slight hiccup.
Please bear with us whilst we set up our new email address which is: enquiries@savegraveneymarshes.org
Our website and other things will be updated as soon as possible.
These projects CAN be refused
The Cleve Hill Solar Park proposal is huge in more ways than one. The parent companies, Hive and Wirsol, have a lot of expertise, time and cash. They’ve spent years concocting their plans – and … Read more
Help with registering
In a democracy you can have a voice by voting, but you have to register. It’s the same with the National Infrastructure Planning process – you can have a voice, but you have to register. … Read more
Video: How to have your say on nationally significant infrastructure projects
This short video gives a useful overview of the National Infrastructure six stage process. Don’t forget that we’re currently at ‘Stage 3: Pre-examination’ – this is your chance to register as an ‘interested party’. It’s … Read more
Register now to have your voice heard
Did you know that the Cleve Hill Solar Park still has to be approved before it can be built? It has to be ‘examined’ by the Planning Inspectorate in a process that is similar to … Read more
Onwards to Stage 3 (of 6)
As expected it has been announced today that the application by Cleve Hill Solar Park has been ‘accepted for examination’. This just means that the application “is of a satisfactory standard”. The application will go … Read more
BBC Southeast coverage
Here’s the clip of the great BBC coverage yesterday which featured views from Stephen Harris of The Sportsman pub restaurant and Wendy a local resident.
Get ready to register as an Interested Party
We will know if the application gets through the current ‘Acceptance’ stage by Friday 14th December. If it does, then the next stage is ‘Pre-examination’ during which you can register to become an ‘Interested Party’. Registration … Read more
KMTV coverage: Kent MP ready to fight plans for huge Solar park – YouTube
Here’s some coverage from KMTV. Great to see this, but please can reports show properly what the solar panel design for this is actually like? We’re facing dense, east-west, industrial, mega-panels – these are not … Read more
Join us at the Faversham Information Event on Sunday 9th December
The Graveney Rural Environment Action Team (GREAT) is holding another information event to help explain the project, and the planning process. Find out more about the massive industrialised power station proposed by Cleve Hill Solar Park … Read more
Export, and import?
The first interesting thing we found in the application is outlined in the 1.2 Application Form file. This is a copy of the information that the developers entered into The Planning Inspectorate’s website as part … Read more
Our guide to the application
The DCO application, submitted yesterday, is made up of 133 files, which takes up 2.87GB of disk space. It’s difficult to access and, as expected, there’s a lot of information here. We’ve created a dedicated … Read more
Three months late, but the application is now submitted
It was about a year ago when we first heard about the proposals to build an industrial style and scale solar power station on Graveney, Nagden and Cleve Marshes. We were told that a pre-application … Read more
On the edge of the solar dream
This article is written by one of our local residents. It describes very well how the Cleve Hill proposal is much more than, and in fact nothing like, your typical solar park. Romantics can see … Read more
