We love Shropshire. Its quiet lanes and ancient hedgerows, the owls that still nest in old oak trees, the skylarks rising over fields that have fed people for generations. Shropshire's unspoilt land is being eyed up, acre by acre, for industrial solar...
We believe there's a better way to go green than paving over the countryside we all love.
The Proposed Solar Farm site..
130 acres of unspoilt countryside between Walton and Onibury, near Craven Arms, farmed with the environment in mind for decades, and home to breeding Skylarks and a Barn Owl roost going back generations.
A proposal now threatens to cover this land in a 20-22 megawatt industrial solar installation.
This is what we could lose
Productive Farming Land
This land has been farmed with the environment in mind for decades, not against nature, but alongside it. It's some of the best agricultural land in the country, still feeding people today. Losing it to industrial infrastructure means losing food security we can't simply replace.
Add your voice. Over at change.org 131 people have already said no to losing 130 acres of nature-rich Shropshire farmland to an industrial solar development. Every signature builds the case that this is the wrong site, and helps show Shropshire Council just how strongly local people feel.