Supportive associations
It's a new gold rush! Wealthy individuals, teaming up with big power companies, are trying to monetise British agricultural land, at scale. Anywhere with a connection into the grid and a land-owner looking to make a buck, is seeing solar farms of massive scale – thousands of acres and hundreds of thousands of panels – being drawn up.
These lean heavily on their supposed ‘green’ credentials. However, in reality, they prioritise generating money over renewable energy and, in doing so, ignore a number of key points.
With the number of solar farms/schemes rapidly increasing, with some of them covering huge areas of farmland, many associations are raising concerns and highlighting information to the general public that developers, investors and retailers, with support from the Government, are not telling us. We have joined forces with local and national associations who have the same concerns as us.
United we can make a difference!
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The Tenant Farmers Association of England and Wales (TFA) is pleased to be supporting Claydons Solar Action Group in opposing proposals for the 2100 acre Rosefield Solar Farm near the villages of East Claydon, Middle Claydon and Botolph Claydon in Buckinghamshire. This scheme is wholly contrary to public policy and is not in the public interest. If approved, the project will remove a considerable area of best and most versatile agricultural land needed to ensure that we are meeting our food security and food self-sufficiency targets as a nation. Additionally, if accepted, it would involve the loss of a large area of land from the tenanted sector of agriculture which would be contrary to the Government's policy of seeking to ensure that we at least maintain the tenanted sector at its current level to assist with new entrants, progressing and developing farmers. We will be joining with Claydons Solar Action Group to encourage the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to reject these proposals.