Representation by Peter Doe
- Date submitted
- 13 March 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
We object to the Sunnica scheme for the following reasons: 1. 2800 acres of agricultural land will be stolen, an area greater than Heathrow airport. 2. Sunnica’s proposal is equivalent to the sum of the ten largest solar farms in the UK 3. The largest European solar farm at Nunez Balboa in southern Spain has roughly the same out output as Sunnica but is in virtual desert with a population density of 31 people per square kilometre whereas East Anglia has a density of 326 people per square kilometre. 4. The enormous Chinese ‘great wall of solar’ is three times the size of Sunnica but is in the arid, uninhabited Tengger desert in Mongolia which is useless for cultivation of any kind. 5. We feel that the 77 acres of battery energy storage and their closeness to our villages poses a potential catastrophe if this largely untried technology is forced on us in such a densely populated area. 6. Valuable agricultural land should be retained for producing crops to help our self sufficiency in feeding our nation and for providing habitats for wildlife. 7. Brownfield land, industrial buildings’ roofs and new build homes should be used for solar energy production. 8. HOW WILL THE 100 ACRES OF CONCRETE, 1000000 SOLAR PANELS AND TONS OF LI-ION BATTERIES BE SAFELY DISPOSED OF AND THE COUNTRYSIDE RETURNED TO ITS ORIGINAL CONDITION? WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE?