🌿 “This Land is Our Land” – Why Conisbrough’s Green Fields Must Not Be Sacrificed for Solar Profit ☀️🚫

🏞️ A Morning Walk Through England’s Beating Green Heart

This morning, I took a quiet walk through the fields above Conisbrough, a jewel of South Yorkshire. Rolling farmland, wild hedgerows, ancient tracks—it felt like stepping into a timeless painting.

The kind of place that doesn’t just feed people, but restores the soul.

But this landscape is under threat. Real, imminent, and irreversible. Developers behind the Whitestone Solar Megaproject are circling—ready to cover this land with an industrial-scale sea

📸 Scene 1: The Beauty We’re About to Lose

A winding track through cereal fields, where the land gently breathes beneath your boots

Endless green horizons, layered with centuries of cultivation

A living countryside rich in history, biodiversity, and seasonal rhythm


> This isn’t “vacant” land. It’s living, working countryside.

❗ The Whitestone Solar Threat – Greenwashing at Its Worst

Make no mistake: this isn’t about “green energy for local people.” This is about:

Corporate profits

National Grid proximity

Locked gates and environmental damage


Whitestone wants to industrialise thousands of acres, much of it Grade 2 and Grade 3a “Best and Most Versatile” farmland, forever displacing food production, wildlife, and beauty.

📸 Scene 2: A Landscape with Purpose


Thriving wheat fields stretching to the horizon

Grazing land and hedgerows supporting birds, insects, and rural life

Historic views of Conisbrough Castle and neighbouring ridgelines


> And yet all of it is at risk—from energy speculators dressed in “green” rhetoric.

🌍 What’s Really At Stake

Here’s what covering this landscape with solar panels will do:

🌾 Destroy food security – You can’t eat electricity. Grade 2 land is precious.
🌧️ Increase flood risk – Replacing roots with gravel ruins drainage.
🦋 Kill biodiversity – Bees, birds, and bats all suffer under fenced-off, chemical-managed solar fields.
🚷 Sever communities from nature – Public footpaths often vanish behind security fencing.

And most importantly:

🔋 It won’t solve our energy crisis – Not when solar contributes almost nothing in winter, and we’re still importing electricity on coal.

The undulating Yorkshire farmland—not just scenic, but functional

Community-used footpaths that will be lost forever

A living ecosystem already balancing productivity and nature


> Solar here isn’t green—it’s greed.

✅ The Real Alternatives

We support renewable energy. But the answer is not to sacrifice the countryside. Real solutions include:

🏭 Rooftop and industrial solar – There are over 250,000 hectares of south-facing roof space in the UK!

🪟 Solar film technology – Ultra-light, near-commercial solar skin for buildings and infrastructure.

⚛️ SMRs (Small Modular Reactors) – Safe, low-waste, reliable, and made in Britain.


Put simply: we don’t need to destroy Conisbrough’s fields to power the nation.

✊ Join the Resistance – Protect Our Land

Reform UK is fighting to defend our green spaces, farmland, and local power. We call on:

Residents to attend public consultations

Farmers to reject land leasing offers that risk our heritage

Councillors to stand up for our countryside

Parliament to rethink land-use policy around renewables

🚜 This Land Is Worth More Than Profit

Conisbrough’s green fields are more than a backdrop—they are our identity, our resilience, our future. Let’s not become the generation that gave it all away.

🛑 Say NO to Whitestone Solar.
📣 Say YES to smarter energy, stronger local voices, and a greener countryside that still grows food.

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