Representation by Campsea Ashe Parish Council (Campsea Ashe Parish Council)
- Date submitted
- 27 January 2020
- Submitted by
- Parish councils
Campsea Ashe Parish Council support the representations made by SASES and Friston Parish Council. The cumulative impact of up to seven energy projects in East Suffolk will have a detrimental human impact particularly through noise and light pollution, blight and community severance in many villages as a result of the traffic impact. There is no doubt that Friston and surrounds will experience the most negative impact of noise and light pollution with discernible increases in both impacting on the quality of life for residents. The detrimental traffic impact however will have a wider compass on the villages and countryside of East Suffolk. This will be particularly severe as local business parks, such as Bentwaters and Base Parks, gain sub-contracting business resulting in traffic being diverted from main routes. Local roads will also become ‘rat runs’ as local traffic seeks alternative routes to avoid increased heavy traffic on major roads. In addition to community severance this will result in reduced road safety on B and unclassified roads, often with hedgerows and tight bends, not designed to cope with the volume of traffic. This is exacerbated as many villages do not have public transport readily available to visit local amenities. The projects also will have a detrimental effect on landscape, ecology and environment that cannot be mitigated in the future, resulting in a negative impact on tourism. Much of the local economy, including villages such as Campsea Ashe, is dependent on incomes from tourism. With no long term jobs created by the projects there will be an overall adverse socio-economic impact of the proposed development in East Suffolk.