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Representation by Kay Blackwell

Date submitted
7 March 2022
Submitted by
Members of the public/businesses

Health & Safety:- Potential fires & release of poisonous gas 1 mile from schools and surrounding residential areas. 77 acres used for battery storage compounds close to Red Lodge. Fire breakouts from these are not unheard of. Hundreds of HGV vehicles clogging up roads in surrounding villages inc Red Lodge. 2,500 acres of good farmimg land laid to waste on a permanent basis. Wild life corridoors and habitats lost for the for the next 40 y + years including flora and fauna. Green spaces and farmland that has been developed over many years, giving us the unique Suffolk countryside, will disappear for ever. Food security, we are losing more and more of our farmland and green spaces. These are so important to everyone, especially for our own UK food produce.