Your countryside needs you
Your voice is essential
*THIS IS NOT A DONE DEAL *
Statutory public consultation will open for seven weeks from 29 January. Meetings will be held in local village halls as well as online. See Calendar for the dates.
Your voice is essential. Please register with us so that you can be kept updated about meetings and sent calls to action.
Action for now:
- Register with Stop Lime Down so that we can keep you updated and let you know how and when to object
- Join our 1000 club and donate if you can. (details below)
- Come along to one of our update talks
- Attend the IGP Consultation meetings. It is essential to engage and show that we are not apathetic.
- Respond to the consultation questionnaire - see guidance notes below
Details on how to register your support can be found by clicking on the photo above.
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Get Involved
Register with Stop Lime Down
Register with Stop Lime Down
Register with Stop Lime Down
Lime Down Solar Park has scant regard for the potential disruption and harm this profit-making development is likely to have on the local area. We will lose our open countryside
We want to make sure that all residents in the local villages are kept informed and we are determined to challenge it.
Please sign up for updates and calls to action. We will guide you on how to voice your objection.
Join our 1,000 club
Register with Stop Lime Down
Register with Stop Lime Down
We aim to gather 1,000 supporters who each give what they can.
Every donation, no matter the size, helps secure a future for our countryside.
By setting up a monthly standing order, you’ll contribute to the legal, expert, and campaign costs needed to protect our community.
Attend the Meetings
Respond to the Questionnaire
Respond to the Questionnaire
It is essential to attend the meetings.
SLD will hold update talks from 1 - 6 Feb.
IGP will hold their statutory consultation meetings from 5 - 27 Feb.
Respond to the Questionnaire
Respond to the Questionnaire
Respond to the Questionnaire
The consultation is about Lime Down and it is vital that everyone gives an answer to that specific question in section 2 with reasons in your own words.
SLD Update talks
We will be holding talks prior to the Statutory meetings so that we can let you know our response, what the proposal is, what it means to us, why we feel it should be opposed.
Please come to one of them if you can and let friends and neighbours know about them.
Saturday 1st Feb 2025
SLD Update Sherston Village Hall
10.30am
Saturday 1st Feb 2025
SLD Update Sherston Village Hall
10.30am
Monday 3rd Feb 2025
SLD Update Goss Croft Hall, Seagry
6.30pm
Monday 3rd Feb 2025
SLD Update Goss Croft Hall, Seagry
6.30pm
Tuesday 4th Feb 2025
SLD Update Grittleton Village Hall
5.45pm
Tuesday 4th Feb 2025
SLD Update Grittleton Village Hall
5.45pm
Thursday 6th Feb 2025
SLD Update Hullavington Village Hall
6.30pm
Thursday 6th Feb 2025
SLD Update Hullavington Village Hall
6.30pm
Objections to consider
It is vital to give your feedback to IGP and let them know in your own words why you object to their proposals. Decide what messages you want to get across and leave it at that. Q1 is about na:onal policy rather than local issues and we would suggest ignoring it.
replaced with acres of solar panels up to 4.5 metres high, with tall mesh security fencing, security cameras, inverter cabins, substations, batteries and lighting.
that cross the proposed solar farm area, and access to rural amenities. Would you use footpaths that are narrow corridors between security fences?
The effects on your mental health of living near an ugly industrial development.
are the studies by the developer sufficient to understand the effects on wildlife,
both common and rare or protected species that experts and locals are aware of including otters, water voles, bats and birds such as owls, migratory species such as swallows and swifts? Are the mitigation measures they propose going to be adequate?
some existing hedgerows will have to be removed to get access to build the farm and cable route and this will compromise wildlife. How quickly will new hedging grow, will it be adequate to screen installations and will deciduous screening be adequate during winter months?
See Expert Report on Storm Bert under Stop Lime Down Campaign tab
The risk of permanent contamination of our water supply from: damaged panels; firefighting water if
there should be a fire in the battery storage system (BESS); herbicide application to substations.
We just have to look at other Lithium Battery fires in the news recently to see the risk.
The solar utlity’s proximity to where you live, any conservation areas, listed buildings including
homes, churches and monuments, and how the ‘setting’ around these areas will be affected.
How it will affect the nature of the Cotswold landscape and rural villages, and the value of homes:
although adverse effects on house prices are not a planning consideration, you should still mention it!
Note: planning decisions do not consider the loss of views from private properties.
The loss of income to local businesses, possible closure of pubs and cafés due to reduced tourism.
HGV traffic during the 2-year construction period and additional traffic once operational. Having to re-
route your own trips to avoid the heavy lorries. Danger to pedestrians and cyclists. Damage to
roadside buildings.
including the extensive piledriving which will be required.
Lights and noise from the sites’ inverter cabins, battery storage and transformers.Some, if not all,
solar panels will rotate to follow the sun: this will also generate noise. Effects of glint (flashes of bright
light) and glare (continuous reflected light) from the panels.
The ‘temporary’ 60-year tenure of the solar farm: how will lands be returned to former use (to be
farmed?); the risk of renewed planning permission or new alternative industrial development on what
will now be an industrial site.
(Likely to be made in China) their replacements over six decades and their disposal, cleaning and maintenance.