On 7 April 2020 some of you may have received an email from Stephen Reid informing you that the company he works for, the RES-Group, has …’acquired the development assets of the Springdale Solar Farm‘…, which, given that this project hasn’t even provided a Response to Submission, we expect this means they have ‘acquired’ a lot of papers i.e EIS documents and anything that goes with that.

Mr Reid’s letter had this to say. …”As Renew Estate moves away from the project, please be assured that they have delivered a complete handover of all material to us, so that we can properly stand in their shoes as developer going forward. Rosie has taken us through all of the details as to the various discussions, emails and meetings with all stakeholders, especially the community.”… Well, that handover would’ve been short, bearing in mind Renew Estate has ignored this community since August 2018. See link below.

Given that Mr Reid’s email came just 6 days after our meeting with Minister Stokes the SSAG has been back in touch with our local member, Ms Wendy Tuckerman MP to share this information and ask her for her support. We have asked her to consider a number of courses of action on behalf of the SSAG which she has agreed to do. We will keep the community informed via posts on our website.

Whilst the developers name may have changed, the multitude of issues that the community identified in the EIS has not. The SSAG is not being distracted by this latest twist, our focus continues to be on showing just how unsuitable the proposed Springdale solar development is to this area.