A solar farm developer is proposing to place solar panels and batteries on 100 acres of productive agricultural land, on a North East Facing Hill, rendering them less efficient. This is a designated Special Landscape Area in the Stour Valley Project area that is adjacent to Dedham Vale AONB. The site will be visible from miles around and enclosed with metal fencing and have CCTV cameras.The Save Glem Valley Group are campaigning against this and will need to employ various advisers and consultants such as barrister, heritage and planning specialists, and landscape architects. The visual impact will be devastating to residents and visitors to this unique hilly part of Suffolk. This agricultural area could provide 82 million weetabix, or 500,000 loaves a bread a year. We believe in renewable energy but believe solar panels should be on roofs/industrial areas, not beautiful and productive land. The River Glem already floods regularly and we fear this could affect the lanes and housing in the valley.

So far we have funded a short film, banners and fliers, an architectural historian, a landscape architect, a heritage specialist, a planning consultant and have an ongoing legal adviser

UPDATE 26/2/2025:

The council has declared that we are now in a re-consultation period that is due to end on 4/3/25. We believe there will be a 3rd consultation period before the planning committee actually meet (at the earliest in May/June 2025) so we are submitting new objections to the developer's comments and employing a planning consultant to advise us.

You can object again, reiterating the inappropriateness of this site for a solar farm as there are better, more efficient, flatter sites that don't ruin the valued landscape and are not on a North East facing hill and will not interfere with local buried heritage and heritage buildings, via the planning portal:

https://planning.baberghmidsuffolk.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=S3GCPPSHHHP00

People can email in with comments to: planning@baberghmidsuffolk.gov.uk.

Your donations have contributed to paying for our specialist reports that are all available to view under 'documents' on the Baberghmidsuffolk planning portal: DC/23/05127 dated 29/2/24. They include landscape visual review, ecology, heritage and planning subjects.

We do not know when the planning committee will meet to make a decision- it will be May/June 25 at the earliest.

We need more funds and the saveglemvalley committee will continue to do their best to fight this absurd plan: Baberghmidsuffolk planning portal