JOHN NETTLES PRESENTS DEVON CPRE’S ’SAVE OUR FIELDS FROM SOLAR FARMS’ CAMPAIGN

Devon CPRE is enormously grateful to TV star John Nettles for spearheading our campaign against proposals for ever-larger solar farms that threaten to despoil Devon’s green and pleasant countryside. This video challenges ‘green’ claims that solar farms are low carbon and are a good use of agricultural land. They are not! If solar farms are so good for converting sun to electricity to help solve a global issue, surely they should be sited in parts of the world where the sun is strongest, not on rainy Devon’s precious green farmland just for some to make a vast profit? John Nettles lives near the village of Pyworthy in northwest Devon where residents, with our help, are fighting proposals for a massive solar installation at Derril Water. Details of the planning application can be found on the Torridge District Council website (reference 1/0249/2021/FULM). Please support us by objecting to this and the other current proposals throughout the county, which total around 1,000 acres of farmland in Torridge, No