'It’s crushing, it would finish us' - the stud owners caught up in a solar-powered nightmare

Andrew Scutts chats to well-known industry figures whose way of life is under threat from a solar farm project

The Lime Down Solar Park: big threat to the viability and livelihood of those connected to Ladyswood and West Park Farm studsCredit: Line Down

Two prominent stud owners are among those facing an uncertain future due to a plan backed by the Duke of Beaufort to build a 2,000-acre solar farm.

The Lime Down Solar Park scheme is designed to generate 500 megawatts of clean energy, but would ruin large areas of countryside near the Fosse Way, a Roman road.

Part of the solar farm would be on the duke’s 52,000-acre Badminton estate in Gloucestershire, as well as on land in a triangle between the market towns of Malmesbury, Tetbury and Chippenham.

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Andrew ScuttsBloodstock editor

Published on 2 June 2024inFeatures

Last updated 17:41, 2 June 2024

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