Dinedor Village Action Group (DVAG) is an unincorporated association of residents in Dinedor, Herefordshire, opposing a proposed industrial-scale solar farm on 82 acres (33.32 hectares) of working farmland in their parish. The development, proposed by ILOS New Energy UK Limited (the UK subsidiary of the pan-European solar developer ILOS, headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, and majority-owned by AXA IM Alts), would deliver up to 30 MW of installed solar PV capacity, operating for up to forty years.
The proposed site sits in the immediate setting of the line of the Rotherwas Ribbon, a Neolithic ceremonial monument the Herefordshire County Archaeologist has described as "apparently so far unique in Europe", and below Dinedor Camp, an iron age scheduled monument that has held the local skyline for over two thousand years. The wider parish contains eleven designated heritage assets in total, including the Church of St Andrew, Dinedor Court, and the Glebe Farmhouse complex. The proposal also lies approximately 1.2 km from the Wye Valley National Landscape and within the hydrological catchment of the River Wye Special Area of Conservation, currently in unfavourable-declining condition.
Herefordshire Council screened the proposal out of an Environmental Impact Assessment on 22 April 2026. DVAG has lodged a formal request under Regulation 5(6)(b) of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 asking the Secretary of State to substitute that screening direction; that request is currently under consideration.
DVAG supports the transition to renewable energy. It opposes this specific proposal, in this specific place, on the strength of the heritage, landscape and ecological sensitivities of the site, and the wide availability of less-sensitive alternative sites for solar deployment.
