Surrounded by rolling farmland and boasting thatched Tudor cottages, pub and a church recorded in the Domesday Book, one could say Salford Priors is the epitome of a classic English village.
But residents of the picturesque community – and others along Warwickshire’s border with Worcestershire – are up in arms over plans for what would become one of the UK’s biggest solar farms.
They say the scheme will turn prime arable land into a ‘crystal desert’ with communities blighted by glint and glare and natural habitats destroyed.
The proposed Arrow Valley Solar project will span an area of four square miles and see
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