Representation by Pauline Carole Crampin
- Date submitted
- 12 January 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I am in favour of solar panels on buildings and brown field sites. just because this site is near a substation with spare capacity does not make it suitable. Because:- Unacceptable size of 2,000acres, a perimeter of 36 kilometres, 3.3meter high panels, 2 meter high security fence peppered with cameras, numerous transformers which creates an awful industrial landscape in rural Lincs. And Rutland. Good quality food producing farmland will be lost thus compromising home production targets. The biodiversity will be threatened and not realistically mitigated by extra planting of trees which will take 15 year to mature.I have recorded and illustrated the rich wildlife for a complete year in 2020-2021, published in (Lincolnshire Lockdown ).Many species will disappear and deer road kill will increase as mammals are made homeless. Local roads are totally inadequate for construction and service vehicles. Our cultural heritage is often located adjacent to these roads and will be threatened.The ancient churches and cottages have no foundations and the Carterton Roman Hill Fort and the buried Casterton Roman Villa (excavated and reburied in the 1950,s) will certainly suffer. Flood risk is a real problem with the West Glen and surface run off. Decommissioning of such a huge site will be worse than the construction process but I will be dead by then. What compensation is there with this devastating construction?House prices are now dropping. How can they justify compulsory land purchase in Essendine?