This website has been set up by local residents to share our concerns about East Pye Solar, which is being developed by Island Green Power, an international developer of renewable energy projects. East Pye Solar is a proposed solar power plant that would cover a large area of rural South Norfolk.
This is NOT an anti-solar campaign. We believe that utility-scale solar should not be sited on productive farmland around small rural villages, but on car parks, former industrial sites, or beside motorways.
The land currently being considered for East Pye Solar consists of multiple sites on the Best and Most Versatile (BMV) agricultural land. The solar fields themselves are approximately 1,100 hectares (2,718 acres) in area. The entire project, including cabling, stretches across an unspoiled area of South Norfolk countryside, covering approximately 15 square miles.
Villages directly affected:
The East Pye Solar proposal directly impacts the villages of Hempnall, Fritton, Woodton, Brooke, Saxlingham, Shotesham, Silver Green, Lundy Green, Tharston, Tasburgh, Great Moulton, Hedenham, Morningthorpe, and Long Stratton. If the project is approved and the infrastructure installed, the solar fields could extend to further villages along the cable route. View affected land parcels
Government Petition
Ban large solar schemes on farmland/open countryside and promote solar on roofs View and sign the Petition