May 30, 2020
Many people are asking “What can we do about the Secretary of State’s devastating decision to approve the proposal to build a vast, industrial Solar Power Station on Graveney Marshes?” GREAT are currently having urgent Zoom meetings with our expert …
May 28, 2020
GREAT are devasted to confirm that the Secretary of State has today, 28th May 2020, decided to make an Order granting development consent for the proposal by Cleve Hill Solar Park Limited to build a vast industrial Solar Power Station …
Article by Gerry Warren, Kent Online 27th May 2020. The anxiously-awaited decision on whether the UK’s biggest solar park can be built in Kent is due tomorrow. The Secretary of State for Business, Environment and Industrial Strategy, Alok Sharma, is …
May 27, 2020
* This Guardian article was amended on 26 May 2020. An earlier version said that Cleve Hill solar farm had won the support of the Planning Inspectorate earlier this month. However, the recommendation has not been made public. This has …
May 24, 2020
Article in today’s Sunday Times Leo Patrizi. Kent is known as “the Garden of England”, but a swathe of its farmland could be covered with 900,000 panels if the UK’s largest solar farm is approved this week. Cleve Hill Solar …
May 19, 2020
The New Nature Blog is written by Miles King a UK based conservation and environment campaigner. Miles is particularly interested in the intersection between nature, politics and the way we value nature (or don’t.). So today he hosts a guest …
May 16, 2020
This is the first of a series featuring artists inspired by Graveney Marshes. Local artist, Rachael Dickens, makes work featuring a wide variety of materials, often prompted by the things she finds washed ashore. A member of the Whitstable drawing …
May 11, 2020
Article By Phoebe Southworth in the Sunday Telegraph online 10 May 2020 The proposed development at Cleve Hill near Faversham, which would cover 900 acres of farmland CREDIT: Richard Knox-Johnston/Richard Knox-Johnston Developers want to erect up to one million solar panels …
May 8, 2020
This is the east-west solar panel alignment proposed by the developers for Graveney Marshes. As we celebrate World Migratory Bird Day today we ask how on earth will the 390 species of wildlife that inhabit Graveney Marshes be able to …
May 6, 2020
See Helen Whately MP and Sir David Melville voice their very serious concerns about the proposed Solar Power Station on KMTV. ‘Graveney solar farm plans opposed by MP Helen Whately and residents‘ Click here The article describes the devastating effect …
May 5, 2020
Latest news from Kent Online ‘A petition against building Britain’s biggest solar farm on the outskirts of Faversham has reached a milestone of almost 4,000 signatures – with a decision on the controversial bid is expected in weeks. The mammoth project …
The RSPB’s response to the National Inspectorate’s request for information relating to the Cleve Hill Solar Park proposal. 20 April 2020Dear Sir or Madam The RSPB has opposed this proposal from the outset, considering that the land subject to the …
April 29, 2020
The risk of disease outbreaks including pandemics increases the more nature is destroyed. Committed nature conservation in many regions of the world is thus key to preventing new infectious diseases. Federal Environment Minister Schulze, The Federal Republic of Germany, emphasised …
April 27, 2020
By Richard Belfield, Faversham Eye – The behaviour of the planning inspectors in the Cleve Hill solar farm inquiry gets more bizarre by the day. There has been a further delay. In early April they wrote to the developers (Wirsol …
April 24, 2020
We have many great organisations supporting our campaign to Save Graveney Marshes. Some of these are charities, all doing an amazing job to protect rural landscapes, our wildlife, biodiversity and more. One of these charities is the CPRE, the Campaign …
