Here’s the current thinking from the developer’s briefing pack [pdf] The proposed development site is on an area of approximately 890 acres (360 hectares). This is the same area as at least 640 football pitches.
Here’s a link to the Environment Agency’s flood map service showing what the current flood probability is. It says this is an area with “a high probability of flooding” and is an area that benefits … Read more
Public consultation: November 2017 to January 2018 The Environment Agency is currently working on a “Medway Estuary and Swale flood and coastal risk management strategy”. From their website information: What the strategy will do The … Read more
Please get in touch if you would like to help with managing this site. We need to know about all aspects of the proposed development and we want to show the landscape in all its glory. Send … Read more
Here’s the land that this website is all about – the location for what the developers are calling Cleve Hill Solar Park. Explore via Google Maps or Ordnance Survey
Plans to build the UK’s largest solar farm a mile outside Faversham have come under scrutiny from environmental groups. The proposals for Cleve Hill Solar Park Farm, which went on public display for the first … Read more
In this story from a trade magazine Wirsol, one of the partners behind Cleve Hill, is shown to be expanding its UK portfolio of solar projects. The scale of these is tiny compared to the … Read more
Helen Whately attended the consultation that was held at the Graveney Village Hall on 7th December. Graveney residents told me and @lambertleese of anguish at scale of proposed solar farm at consultation and @TheFreewheelPub afterwards … Read more
A joint venture between leading solar developers Wirsol and Hive Energy has launched a proposal for a solar park ‘in excess of 350 MW’ to be located on Britain’s North Kent Coast. While the proposal … Read more
Britain’s biggest solar farm could be built on the edge of Whitstable on a site the size of 900 football pitches. Developers have today unveiled plans to blanket 890 acres of farmland near Graveney with … Read more
The UK’s largest solar farm is earmarked for the worst possible location, an environmental group says. A consortium of two energy companies has announced plans to build a solar park on 890 acres (360 hectares) … Read more
UK’s biggest solar farm planned for Kent coast Subsidy-free plant would cover 900 acres of farmland near Great Expectations marshes at Faversham, dwarfing output of UK’s current largest solar site The developers of the Cleve … Read more