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Representation by William Geoffrey Clamp

Date submitted
2 May 2024
Submitted by
Members of the public/businesses

I strongly object to the use of good agricultural land for solar panels. As the population of the country continues to grow we need this land to feed people. I also feel that wildlife will be adversely affected by the panels and by the fencing surrounding the solar farm. There are industrial buildings all over the country that should have solar panels on them and for some inexplicable reason we are still building houses without solar panels on them. Studies have shown that sufficient solar panels could be put on roof tops and on brown field sites (along with more wind turbines) to produce all the renewable energy we need, so why take good farm land?