Representation by Jean Cummings
- Date submitted
- 20 March 2024
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
We are opposed to the development. Solar installation should be on brownfield/contaminated land which is extand locally. • Best and Most Versatile Land (BMV) - loss of good agricultural land is not welcome while use for food security is paramount • Detrimental Visual Impact on the rural character of the area from solar arrays, containers and 3m high fencing with security cameras – increasing urbanisation of a rural area with coalescence (merging) of small rural villages. • The size and scale of the development would be out of scale with the landscape and dominate an attractive rural area. • 40 year life for project unacceptable • At consultation, the construction phase was 16 months adding an unacceptable impact on rural local road networks including the A444, Stapenhill, Drakelow, Walton on Trent, Rosliston and Coton in the Elms and other surrounding villages. • The build compounds are on small rural winding rural roads unacceptable for large HGVs and large traffic numbers. • The new Walton Bypass is not built and the Chetwynd bridge at the A513 now has a weight restriction sending all farm and existing traffic through the villages which are already bottlenecks and rat runs to a creaking lack of traffic infrastructure with poorly maintained roads riddled with crater like potholes. • Abnormal loads through rural roads and Coton in the Elms are unacceptable and contraventions of the 7.5t weight limit are a large issue now before the additional associated traffic is introduced from the development. • The historic environment of local conservation areas and heritage assets including listed buildings will be affected by the alien industrial development. • Real expectation of further increase in local flooding from run-off