Hawkchurch and Monkton Wyld Action Group

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...