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Villagers feel powerless to stop a giant battery link to solar farms
Sleaford Target
|May 21, 2025
RESIDENTS FEEL THEIR HOMES ARE BEING SWAMPED BY ED MILIBAND'S ENERGY STRATEGY
A VILLAGE that could be surrounded by solar farms has reacted with dismay to the announcement of plans for a new battery farm.
The facility near Navenby would see over 200 van-sized batteries placed on farmland just 650 metres from the village.
It is planned for land south of Green Man Road to link in with the major Fosse Green and Springwell solar farm applications nearby. 232 batteries, each three metres tall and six metres long, would be placed across two fields.
Local residents say they'll continue campaigning against the new proposals - technically known as a Battery Energy Storage Facility.
John Lawson, a member of the Cliff Villages Action Group, lives on the same road as the proposed site.
“It’s a typical beautiful Lincolnshire country road with superb views. It's not suitable at all for industrial buildings,” he said. “Why not a brownfield site, or a former coal power station?
“Everyone will be able to see it from their back garden.
This story is from the May 21, 2025 edition of Sleaford Target.
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