Representation by Frances Stanley
- Date submitted
- 9 March 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I would like to register an objection to the proposed SUNNICA project. Although we have a Newmarket county address we actually live next to the A14/A1303 at CB80XA. We breed thoroughbred horses at the very high end of the business. A great selection of our mares are visiting stallions such as FRANKEL (cost £200,000 ) or DUBAWI (£cost £200,000) as such they are very valuable assets which are entrusted to our care by their owners. I understand that the Batteries used by these large solar panel farms have shown to have an impact on fertility of horses. This would obviously have a dire impact on our business. I also understand that the Government has not done the due diligence on the self combustion of these batteries and the fire service do not at present understand the challenges in extinguishing battery fires. I am not a NIMBY but feel that SUNNICA is misplaced due to a population boom in our area. Cambridge is one of the fastest growing cities in the UK and it would be deemed unsafe to build houses near to these Batteries in the future. I very much opposed the way that I understand SUNNICA has not been open with their communications and disingenuous with their information. If you are trying to undertake this type of extremely large scale scheme it must be with the blessing of the local community where you have to win "hearts and minds" and communicate with them not ignore letters, not turn up at meetings and hope that the locals will go away which is what I understand has happened in this case. I very much hope that this does not get allowed to progress any further and a site away from a dense population is found as we do need to look at more sustainable energy.