Westhall community pub considers building its own wind turbine

Share Save Add as preferred on Google George King Suffolk The Local Storytelling Exchange Kim Hoare with her husband, Nick, who both rallied for the community to take over The Racehorse pub Villagers who bought a pub and transformed it into a thriving local hub are exploring ways of generating their own electricity – including installing their own wind turbine.

Residents in Westhall, near Halesworth, Suffolk, became some of the first in England to secure funding to buy their own pub after winning a £96,000 government grant in 2021.

The local community had been running The Racehorse for two years before officially taking it over, after coming together to rent it following a more than three-year closure.

The campaigners who fought to keep the pub alive are now looking to go one further by building a community solar farm or wind turbine to reduce electricity costs.