Representation by Robin Grant
- Date submitted
- 13 March 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
This is an industrial sized battery storage money making plan in the wrong place. The battery storage is a huge fire risk with toxic fumes and is close to houses, school's etc in rural areas with no fire service close by. Is there an evacuation plan in place? This proposal uses agricultural food producing land. The distance to the substation involves over 15 miles of cabling. No long term benefit to the local community as solar panels are made in China. Profits to a Spanish company. Is there going to be a legal requirement for the company to dispose of the hazardous waste at end of life or is it the taxpayers who will foot the bill? Receht events have shown we need to be more self sufficient in food production not take farmland for battery storage/solar park. Generations of farmers have improved the land and the proposal is to cover it in hundreds of tons of concrete with associated problems of water run off. Is there likely to be a micro climate change due to the size of the proposed area?