Campaign group preparing to make voices heard over solar farm plans
Stop Lime Down is holding an art exhibit to raise funds for legal support
Last updated 4th Oct 2025
A campaign group is preparing to make its concerns known over plans for a 2,200 acre solar farm in Wiltshire.
Stop Lime Down is holding an art exhibition this weekend to raise cash to ensure it has the legal expertise during the examination phase of the proposal.
Island Green Power, the company behind the Lime Down Solar Park plans, has submitted its plans to the Planning Inspectorate, with a decision expected later this month.
The organisation says the project could power 115,000 homes with renewable energy.
Anna-Kate Fuller from Stop Lime Down told us they need experts in all work streams.
She said: "We've already hired hired a landscape architect, a planning consultant, we've got ecologists, we've got traffic and transport specialists, but the legal fees are eye-watering.
"We need to get up to £400,000."
While that amount isn't going to be generated from this weekends art exhibit, Anna-Kate is hopeful of raising as much as £15,000.
More than 100 pieces of art have been donated to the exhibit, with the pieces going to auction.
Anna-Kate told us the art, which is from local creators, is a celebration of the area, it's heritage and it's culture.
"It is the gateway to the Cotswolds. It is rich in heritage and culture. It is stunning, its farmland, it's agricultural, it's unspoilt and we love it," she said.
Artists contributing to the exhibition include Lucy Kent, Alison Murray Wells, Caroline Bromley-Gardner and George Irvine.
Telegraph cartoonist Matt has donated original two cartoons that will have additional limited print runs of 25, and Maria Pitt’s Cotswold Ram, a clay and castle in bronze life-size rams’ head valued at £4,000.
Asked about what the support of the artists meant to her, Anna-Kate said it made her feel emotional.
She said: "It is extraordinary how the community has come together and we all feel so passionately about this because this is it just feels so wrong.
"As Roz Savage (South Cotswolds MP) said, it's the wrong ownership, it's wrong location, it's the wrong size. We are not against renewables, but we all feel passionately that this is wrong."
Anna-Kate added that the project could devastate the farmland and the ancient hedgerows, and that she's "immensely grateful" for a strong community coming together.
The exhibit can be viewed online here.