Representation by Tony Cooper
- Date submitted
- 26 January 2020
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
We want to express our objections to Scottish Power Renewables onshore proposals for EA1N & EA2. Every aspect of the onshore proposal is potentially highly damaging to the area’s environment, economy and well-being. It makes land fall at a very sensitive bit of coastline; it ploughs through the countryside with the equivalent of a 6-lane motorway to reach farmland adjacent to a rural village; it proposes to construct a massive industrial complex on farmland adjacent to a residential area; cumulative impact of other projects and future expansion of the site have not been taken into account. The existing tourist industry and the aspects of the areas surrounding Snape, Aldeburgh and Thorpness, that we all love and enjoy in are under threat by the scale and duration of this intrusion. The village of Friston will be blighted forever and no meaningful mitigation can be implemented that will camouflage this. An industrial complex of this enormous size should not be located on farm land adjacent to a rural village. We have also found the consultation procedure and SPR’s information to be woefully lacking. We agree with SASES’s report, 5 September 2019 on the consultation procedure. We respect the need to meet the county’s future energy requirements from low carbon sustainable sources. However, a considered strategy needs to be formulated by the government to see how best the required infrastructure for the distribution of energy from these new sources can be structured. Government policy must be formed and implemented to give guidance and support to private companies that takes into account both the micro and macro needs of the country so that the wanton destruction of numerous coastal communities can be avoided. I trust that you not only object to SPR’s proposals but are actively seeking to put a pause on SPR's application until a coherent government policy/strategy can be formulated.