We are in a major fight. With the growing number (and size) of solar farms encroaching on our landscape and productive farmland, we have taken on a hydra. Here in Devon, as elsewhere, a rash of huge solar farm applications is raining down on Local Planning Authorities. In Mid Devon recently, we were part of […]

We are delighted to announce the results of our competition. We received a record number of entries from young artists around the county and we would like to thank them all for entering our competition. Also thank you to Exeter based landscape artist Kath Hadden, who helped us with the judging – her expertise was […]

Close vote permits 164-acre solar farm in northwest Devon By a narrow margin of five votes to four, Torridge District Council’s Planning Committee has today granted permission for the development of a massive solar farm on green fields, near a village which is already surrounded by several other solar farms. We supported the 213 residents […]

We very much enjoyed taking part in the community event held at the Town Hall. We also enjoyed listening to the sea shanties from Mariners Away!

We are very much looking forward to Devon Dark Skies week and once again will be hosting a webinar, at 7pm on 28th October. We will be looking at how light pollution is destroying our precious dark skies here in Devon and what we can all do to help protect our dark sky environment, which […]

Congratulations to St Andrew’s, Ashburton – crowned this year’s winner of the Devon’s Best Churchyard award. Runner up is St Peter’s Budleigh Salterton, and Highly Commended plaques are awarded to St Mary’s Buckland Filleigh; St Swithun’s Shobrooke and St Swithun’s Woodbury. For full details go to https://www.cpredevon.org.uk/competitions/devons-best-churchyard-competition/

Thank you very much to the Tiverton Civic Society who invited us to give a talk, via Zoom, which we were delighted to do. It was great to meet so many people. Our presentation was entitled ‘The Destruction of Devon’ and covered issues including housing development, solar farms and anaerobic digesters. If your organisation or […]

We really enjoyed meeting and chatting to so many people at the apple weekend and autumn food fair at beautiful Rosemoor this weekend. Thank you for all the support.

As previously reported, back in May and following the publication of the report by Sheffield Hallam university entitled ‘In Broad Daylight – Uyghur Forced Labour and Global Supply Chains’, we wrote to all the Devon Local Planning Authorities where solar farms are proposed regarding the serious issue of forced labour in the supply chain of […]