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Oaklands Farm Solar Park

Relevant representations (registration comments)

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  • Holly Baker

    Please do not approve this application. The beauty of Rosliston and all the surrounding villages in the National Forest area are an escape for many people, and the reason they travel to live there.... Read more

  • Ionela Petronela Ursache

    I would like to vote against this project. This will decrease the value of the houses and will just bring more pollution to our estate.

  • Mrs irene Stanley on behalf of Irene stanley (Irene stanley)

    Concern lack of good farming land In these uncertain times feel we should produce more local food Noise flooding Traffic disruption country lanes Complete eyesore

  • Jacqueline Shirley Bott

    The significant loss of best & most versatile agricultural land (BMV) Inadequate proposed decommissioning activity to enable affected land to be returned to BMV at the end of the stated project life... Read more

  • Jayne Parker

    Rosliston and surrounding area as been promoted extensively for over the last 25 years as being a key part of the new National Forest and sits centrally within the heart of this still developing mass... Read more

  • Jennie Baker

    I write to oppose the Oaklands Farm Solar application. This application will blot the landscape for decades, cause the loss of important food production land, and damage, and cause traffic congestion... Read more

  • Judith Beresford-Clarke

    We need our farmland to grow our crops and feed ourselves and our animals. Sheep, cattle and wild flowers to sustain insect life and pollination will not thrive under solar panels. Our country lanes... Read more

  • Leicestershire County Council (Leicestershire County Council)

    Leicestershire County Council (LCC) has reviewed the submission for the above Application. It is noted from the Environmental Statement (APP-155) that Abnormal Load movements are proposed to use the... Read more

  • Lisbeth Dring-Fern

    (1) Some solar thermal systems can leak hazardous fluids into the environment i.e. soil. (2) Even low level smoke from the panels can contain toxic metals and be inhaled by the community causing harm... Read more

  • Mary Shaw

    Traffic problems for the village. Loss of good farmland. Flooding issues.

  • Matthew Orford

    Changing farm land into power. Much industrial units in local area with limited or no solar panels, seems a better use of space to use their roofs as opposed to farm land

  • Michael Robert Harris

    Why use 400 acres of good agricultural land for a solar farm when there large areas of poor land available. It would harm wildlife habitats. The HGV traffic (on small badly maintained - pot holed... Read more

  • Mr David Michael Brown

    No Solar on the Best and Most Versatile Land (BMV) runing the countryside, put solar on rooftops not on good agricultural land in our stunnign countryside.

  • Nicholas Graham

    The scale of the development is completely out of character with the rural location and small size of adjacent villages. Good quality farmland should not be sacrificed for solar farms that could be... Read more

  • Ormond James Hooper

    With an increasing focus on domestic food production, and given international food security concerns and global warming trends, the proposal to use productive farm land for a solar energy facility... Read more

  • Overseal Parish Council (Overseal Parish Council)

    A large proportion of the proposed site is Best and Most Versatile Land and use of agricultural land of this quality should be wholly retained for food production. It is highly unlikely that the land... Read more

  • Rachel Suzanne Brown

    Detrimental Landscape and 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... Read more

  • Rachel Thorpe

    I wish to register to have my say about Oakland’s Farm Solar Project NSIP. I am concerned about the loss of the farmland in the area that is due to be removed by the Solar Project. Not only does this... Read more

  • Sheila Ann Barner

    It will be using good agricultural land. It is taking away our countryside and will be harmful to our wildlife. Our way of life will be dramatically changed for the worse. Please leave our countryside... Read more

  • Susan Lynne Rolls

    Concerned about removal of good agricultural land. Damage to natural habitat. Construction traffic coming through small village.

  • Leslie Charles whitten on behalf of Whitten (Whitten)

    Taking up valuable farmland in a country that is unsustainably reliant on food imports and why is it not planning to be built on existing brownfield, ex-power station land at the old Drakelow-C site... Read more

  • Caroline Cartwright

    Travel disruption with 2 years of construction traffic on already awful road surfaces and country lanes full of potholes. Traffic is already high through Walton with no set date for the new bridge to... Read more

  • Josephine belfield

    Extra traffic Bridge over trent Flooding agricultural loss we need more food

  • Kevin Cartwright

    High pitched sound, roads are not designed for this, travel disruption, flooding, changes to landscape farm land loss

  • Lindsey Marguerite Davis

    I live opposite Oakland’s Farm and fear that our property will be blighted by this development and our lives will be ruined during its construction process because of the proximity of the construction... Read more