We have set up a national campaign to give added protection to literary landscapes like this one which inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Shire.’

If the proposal is approved, the ancient trees and rolling landscapes will be covered with hundreds of acres of solar panels, high security fencing and CCTV.

Not only will the landscape be lost – food producing farmland will be too.

Important literary landscapes are not sufficiently protected under current planning rules, leaving them vulnerable to industrialisation like this.

To find out more about the campaign, please visit www.savetheshire.co.uk and take action now to help protect literary landscapes.

Full planning application has now been filed with Wychavon. The Application Number is W/23/00270/FUL.

View Planning Application