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
What needs to change to combat climate change?
A recent Vice.com article points out that cleaner technology is essential if we are to have any long term future, but it’s only one piece of a transition with potential to restructure our planet-ravaging economic … Read more
Black Winged Stilts successfully raised on North Kent Farms
From Carol Donaldson, a well known Environmental Consultant and published author, an article that shows how vital North Kent Farms are to the wildlife in the area. Note the reference to Oare Marshes which are … Read more
Devil in the detail
If you haven’t yet read all 2,303 pages of the PEIR, then here are 46 easy-to-access snippets of content from the ‘Volume IIA Figures’ report.
Drone footage of the greenfield site
The human eye can see much more than the camera, which is why many of the images that developers have used do not do the landscape any justice at all.Â
So we commissioned some drone footage to more clearly the scale and beauty of the site.
A Green Future: Our 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment
The developers are keen to point at the Industrial Strategy and the Clean Growth Strategy. But hang on! This is supposed to be a green initiative isn’t it? Find out why the developers have not information about the government’s 25 Year Green plan.
June 17th is ‘World Day to Combat Desertification’
Sunday 17th June is the World Day to Combat Desertification organised by the United Nations. Unbelievably this is relevant to the UK because the land below the solar panels will be starved of sunlight and rainfall and dried out due to something called PVHI.
Graveney Community Day
Graveney Rural Environment Action Team (GREAT), is hosting its own Community Event at the All Saints Church in Graveney on Saturday 30th June from 10:00 to 14:00. No developers, just local people, independent experts, and some of our elected representatives.
Panoramic views?
There are some huge files uploaded by Cleve Hill as part of their consultation information, and it can be really difficult to access them. The visualisations specifically are large in both file size and format. … Read more
Please register! (was ‘Sign our petition’)
You’ve probably arrived on this page because you’re concerned about the proposed solar and battery storage power station and you want to do something. If so, great! Please register your voice with the Planning Inspectorate … Read more
Advice for the local community from The Planning Inspectorate
Tucked away on the the Planning Inspectorate’s website is a useful document which provides advice for the local community about the ‘pre-application’ consultation. This is the stage we’re at right now, so this could come … Read more
Forget solar, it’s about a mega-mega-battery
Hopefully by now, you know that we’re in the six week consultation period in which we can explore some of the details that will be included in the final application. Previously, the profit-motivated Cleve Hill Solar … Read more
Risk to Schedule 1 birds on Seasalter levels
Today we republish an article from an RSPB blog. It provides a fascinating insight into the birds of area just next to the proposed solar power station. In this one article I counted six Schedule … Read more
Is this ‘Sea of Plastic’ our future too?
Have you heard of the ‘Sea of Plastic’ that surrounds the Spanish city of El Ejido? It’s on the southern coast of Spain opposite Morocco, and shows what happens when commercial interests take over the countryside.Â
As high as a double-decker bus
The east-west layout is one of the many important elements of this proposal that needs to be understood. It is favoured by the developers because it affords a denser layout of panels, covering more of … Read more
82 green transformer cabins
There could be around 82 transformer cabins on the site. These are each half the size of a shipping container and could be situated on top of rafts.
East/west oriented solar panels
The impact of orienting solar panels in a dense east/west orientation would provide more profit for the developer, but at what cost to the environment?
Sustainable Energy – without the hot air
Having written the previous article about solar or nuclear, I thought I’d better check my facts and I came across a very interesting book called Sustainable Energy – without the hot air (available free online) by the … Read more
Do you want another nuclear power station?
Just how big would a solar power station have to be to replace a nuclear power station?