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Local residents opposing the Hazelhurst BESS outside the Public Inquiry in Honiton

East Devon community seeks funds to fight landmark Appeals into proposed Battery Energy Storage Systems 

Devon CPRE is backing residents around the rural hamlet of Hawkchurch in East Devon, who are urgently raising a battle chest to resist two large Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) at two Public Inquiries, the first of which starts on Tuesday, 10 March.

Hawkchurch lies close to both the West Dorset and Somerset county boundaries and appears to be favoured by developers of power...

Devon CPRE backs Marsh Green residents as they fight solar farm developer at a public inquiry

The small rural community of Marsh Green in East Devon will be taking on the might of a solar farm developer, with the backing of the Devon branch of the countryside charity CPRE, at a public inquiry scheduled to start on Tuesday 12 September.

East Devon’s planning committee refused permission last December for a 30MW solar farm of 60,000 solar panels on 218 acres of land across 27...