About DVAG

Residents of a small parish, doing the work.

Dinedor Village Action Group is an unincorporated association of residents formed in 2026 in response to a proposed industrial-scale solar development on 82 acres of working farmland in our parish.

01Who we are

A small parish, doing the work.

Dinedor Village Action Group (DVAG) is an unincorporated association of residents in the parish of Dinedor, Herefordshire. We were constituted in 2026 in response to a proposed industrial-scale solar development on 82 acres of working farmland in our parish.

We are not a political organisation. We are not anti-renewable energy. We are residents of a small parish who believe this proposal, in this place, would do disproportionate harm to a landscape of national heritage and ecological significance, when better land for it exists on every side.

02Why we exist

A screening determination we couldn't let stand.

In March 2026, ILOS New Energy UK Limited submitted a screening request to Herefordshire Council for an 82-acre solar generating station on agricultural land at Dinedor. The site sits in the immediate setting of an iron age scheduled monument and on the line of a Neolithic ceremonial monument the County Archaeologist has described as “apparently so far unique in Europe”. It is 1.2 km from the Wye Valley National Landscape, in a parish containing eleven nationally-designated heritage assets, and in the catchment of a Special Area of Conservation currently in unfavourable-declining condition.

On 22 April 2026, Herefordshire Council determined that the proposal did not require a full Environmental Impact Assessment. We disagreed. We formed DVAG to do something about it.

03What we are doing

Three tracks, running in parallel.

DVAG works on three tracks.

The screening direction request. On 5 May 2026 we lodged a formal request with the Secretary of State under Regulation 5(6)(b) of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017, asking the Secretary of State to substitute the Council's screening determination. The request runs to 26 pages, with eight appendices. It is under consideration.

The planning application stage. When ILOS submits a full planning application, the public will have 21 days to object. We are building an objection toolkit on this site to help residents make objections that engage with material planning considerations (the only objections that carry weight in planning decisions).

The wider conversation. Dinedor is not the only parish in this position. The clustering of large-scale solar farms around grid connections in rural England is a pattern. We are building DVAG's case carefully so that whatever happens here, the work stands as a record of how to oppose inappropriate solar siting, and how to defend a landscape worth keeping.

04How DVAG works

Volunteers. Shared work. No fee.

DVAG is run by volunteers. No-one is paid. We meet regularly, we share work according to capability and capacity, and we make decisions collectively. We have no formal membership fee. Anyone who lives in Dinedor parish, or anyone with a direct connection to the village, is welcome to be involved.

The work has so far included drafting and lodging a 26-page legal submission to the Secretary of State, building this website, producing campaign materials, engaging with statutory consultees, and starting the conversation that the wider community will need to have over the coming months.

05What we support

Yes to renewables. Not on this land.

We support the transition to renewable energy. We support solar power on rooftops, on commercial buildings, on car parks, on industrial estates, on brownfield land, on contaminated land, and on lower-grade agricultural land. We support the deployment of solar at the scale and pace that meeting national energy targets requires.

We do not support 82 acres of industrial-scale glass and steel on working farmland in the shadow of an iron age hillfort, on the immediate fringe of a National Landscape, in the catchment of an unfavourable-declining Special Area of Conservation, in a parish containing eleven designated heritage assets, when the country has hundreds of better places to put it.

The right energy infrastructure should not require sacrificing the wrong land.

06Get involved

Sign up. Stand by. Step forward.

The most useful thing you can do right now is sign up for our updates and be ready to act when the planning application is submitted.

If you would like to do more (help with door-to-door delivery, contribute to research, or join the group of residents driving the campaign), get in touch at admin@dinedorvag.org.

If you are a journalist or researcher, please see our Press Kit for boilerplate copy, key facts, and a timeline of the case.

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