Representation by Jennie Simcock
- Date submitted
- 2 March 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I oppose the Sunnica Energy Farm application. Having lived and worked in Newmarket for over twenty years and are settled with a family Racehorse Training Business and two young children I cannot see any benefit to our local area of the proposed Sunnica application. From a Racehorse Training Centre perspective the proposed development will severely affect the landscape and beauty of the local area (with particular reference to the backdrop of the Limekilns / Railway Land gallops). The building and development of the site over a 3 year period will only be detrimental to local roads / access / villages and this hugely impacts the safety of our riders carrying out daily racehorse exercise. A big personal concern is the prospect of the current greenfield land becoming a "brownfield site" and hence further compromising the ability to restrict houses being built within / near the Racehorse Training Centre - a world renowned 'jewel' in British Horseracing. It is a project being "sold" as Green but given the huge infrastructural requirements - concrete road ways, miles of security fencing, the 3 BESS sites, loss of excellent agricultural land & the analysis that shows the scheme will create more carbon in it's lifetime than it will ever save - makes it hard to fathom. It appears that it will create little or no meaningful local employment and furthermore the import of panels & batteries from China (with known reputation for the use of slave labour in this industry production) again does not convince me there is much good in the project.