Please respond to the statutory consultation
We are now in the statutory consultation phase of the Kingsway solar farm Nationally Strategic Infrastructure Project (NSIP). It runs from 17 September to 29 October 2025. During that time members of the public have their last opportunity to influence the design of the solar farm by writing comments to the developer.
Even if you’ve previously told Kingsway what you think, you need to do so again!
Details of how to do this can be found at the Kingsway website, but the best way is to send an email in whatever format you wish to enquiries@kingswaysolar.co.uk.
The Kingsway Solar Community Action Group are running workshops at several venues over the next few weeks to give advice and help you write your objection letters.
They have also written a very useful guide to writing an opposition letter that you can download it here as PDF, Word or OpenDoc format.
Kingsway have now published details of their proposal in a set of “PEIR” documents that can be downloaded from here. There are literally thousands of pages, most of them very technical. If you have the time, the best place to start is by reading the 65 page non-technical summary of the PEIR. If you want a quick overview the community action group, KSCA, have created a 4 page summary.
Here’s a schematic map showing the overall scale of the proposed solar farm.
To see in detail where the solar farm will be, here’s the details superimposed on an OS map. Click this to see a larger version.
In this map the grey areas show where the solar panels will actually be positioned. The black rectangle just West of the Larks Hall double bends is the compound for the battery energy storage system (BESS) containers, and the green line that leads off from there is the start of the 16 km of pylon cable that goes to Burwell. You can download a very high resolution version of the OS map.
The proposed solar and battery farm now covers an area of 1,246 hectares (3080 acres). As with many other large-scale solar farms that are being developed in the UK it is much bigger than solar farms elsewhere in Europe – about 3x bigger. If that’s hard to imagine, think of an area that’s almost 2 miles wide and 2.5 miles long. It’s roughly equivalent to 2000 football pitches.
For more information go to our solar farm webpage, and visit the KSCA website.
Simon Chandler