Revised plans for solar farm announced

Revised plans for a solar farm in East Yorkshire have been announced.

The proposed Clean Air Solar Farm is an update of the Kingfisher Solar Farm development, which was announced in January 2025.

It would be split across two sites near Beverley with a new boundary and produce 500 MW of electricity, enough to power around 160,000 homes, according to its developers PS Renewables and Ørsted Onshore.

Due to its size, a decision whether to approve the scheme will be made by the government.

A northern site, which was part of the original Kingfisher proposal, would be around three miles (4.8km) north of Beverley, to the east of the A164.

The new southern site would be located south-west of the A1079 and connected to the planned Wanlass Beck substation, which is an extension of the existing Creyke Beck substation.

Randall Linfoot, from Clean Air Solar Farm, said the development would make “a significant contribution toward meeting the country’s ambitious plans to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050”.

He added: “We are committed to making a long-term, positive impact with these proposals and feedback from the community is critical.

“We would like to thank everyone for the time taken to engage with Kingfisher Solar Farm.

“All the feedback received to date has been carefully reviewed and fed into our plans.”

A series of public drop in sessions will be held by the developer across the area in June.

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, if approved, the site is expected to be producing electricity by 2033.

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