Botley West – National coverage in the Mail Online YESTERDAY!
Botley West Solar Farm
Uploaded on November 11, 2024
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| National coverage in the Mail Online YESTERDAY! |
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Sunday, 10th November 2024
We are excited to share this incredible coverage of the Botley West Solar Farm proposal from the Mail Online yesterday. The article covers many angles of the ill-conceived scheme and successfully highlights the visual impact through sliding photomontages and insight from the local community:
“The countryside view that Sir Winston Churchill cherished could be destroyed if Labour gives the green light to the UK’s largest solar panel farm surrounding Blenheim Palace, as it is expected to.
The Duke of Marlborough’s half-brother Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill, who runs Blenheim Estate, has agreed to lease 2,000* acres of his land to a German company that will cover the land with two million solar panels – with 75 per cent being on the green belt.
Locals have branded the plans an outrage and suggested the name Botley West Solar Farm was chosen to distance UNESCO world heritage site and national treasure Blenheim Palace from the vast project…”
To read the article in full, please follow this link:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14053047/Fury-plans-Britains-biggest-solar-farm-greenbelt-Winston-Churchill-WW2-Blenheim-Palace.html
| The article has already attracted over 500 comments, the vast majority supportive of our views, which is great ammunition for us! Please add your own comments and help us to continue the momentum for national awareness by sharing the article with friends and family.
We’d also like to take this opportunity to thank our wonderful community for their continued support, we are getting SO close to reaching our next milestone of £75,000 which will take us half-way to our ultimate target of £150,000!
If you’re able, please keep up the support so that we can present the best possible case against the proposed Botley West Solar Farm. We believe that the communities who will be so greatly affected by this development deserve to have their voices heard so please click on the donate button if you’re able to contribute towards the campaign.
*2000 acres is the panel area. The area inside the fenced “red line boundary” is 3,200 acres.
The Stop Botley West Campaign is entirely dependent on your generosity, both in time and donations. If you are able to contribute, please do give whatever you can – click the link below and scroll down to the donate section.
Together, we will Stop Botley West. Thank you.
https://stopbotleywest.com/donate
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