Representation by BBA Shipping & Transport Ltd (BBA Shipping & Transport Ltd)
- Date submitted
- 16 March 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
We are a Horse Transport and International Shipping company Based on the High Street in Newmarket. Our client base is largely made up of globally based high net worth individuals who have many choices about where they choose to keep and move their their horses. Without doubt it is Newmarkets unique setting, location and ambience that make this town the first choice for owners of Racing and breeding operations to be based here. It is our belief that the presence of a huge solar farm on prime arable land adjacent to the Limekilns will have a detrimental affect on the appeal of Newmarket. This Industrial development has the potential to affect the future prosperity of the town and its environs, affecting businesses like ourselves and risking the long term job security of our employees and staff. The economic damage may take a few years to manifest itself but the damage will then have been done for two generations and for a Horse transport business based in Newmarket that sort of downturn has serious implications for future investment. This solar farm has very little in the way of local economic benefit and an enormous capacity to do harm and we are apposed to it entirely