by Peter Loader | Feb 20, 2026 | News
There will be no appeal by RWE on the Monksfield Solar Farm planning refusal decision. This is the news that we received earlier this week from Malvern Hills District Council’s planning officer after they had been informed by RWE. THIS MEANS THAT PPLAN APPEARS...
by Peter Loader | Nov 26, 2025 | News
The Monksfield Solar Farm refusal was covered extensively on BBC Hereford and Worcester this morning. PPLAN representatives Jo and Peter were interviewed near the proposed site yesterday by the BBC’s Gavin Kermack with content played on Tammy Gooding’s...
by Peter Loader | Nov 12, 2025 | For fun, Net Zero
In this post, we examine some of the misleading solar farm claims made by Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk (RWE) in its planning application for the Monskfield Solar Farm. Of course, they could all be the result of incompetence (some clearly are!), but to us...
by Peter Loader | Nov 10, 2025 | News
The Monksfield Solar Farm was today refused planning permission by Malvern Hills District Council (MHDC)! This news means that an important first hurdle in the planning process has been successfully cleared. It is of course possible that the developer, RWE, will...
by Peter Loader | Oct 6, 2025 | Net Zero, News
On its Chapel Hill Solar Farm website , Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk (RWE) claim that the Monksfield Solar Complex would “provide the equivalent energy needs of 19,894 Worcestershire homes and CO2 savings of over 1.7 million tonnes which equates to...
