Representation by Mervyn Blessett
- Date submitted
- 9 February 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Dust, dirt, traffic problems, inconvenience etc. etc. during the build of at least 2 years. Many large lorries will travel on some of our back roads to reach the sites. Our country lanes will be decimated, even if only for two years, during construction and many of the verges involved have Special Scientific Interest status. The company carrying out this work seem to have only just realised that to come through Stamford will be impossible! We already import too much food so why are we taking away over 2000 acres of this land. It just doesn’t make sense. The soil will become infertile and not be useable should the Solar Panels ever be removed. As a result of the above, House Prices will undoubtedly fall in the area. Who wants to live next to fields and fields of Solar Panels? Will we all receive compensation for that? What will you do for the community in return for the massive inconvenience and change to our local life? Views over open fields will be ruined. We understand that the Solar Panels will be up to 3.3 metres in height. That alone will create a monstrous sight in our fields and on local walks which are totally unacceptable. I have asked people at the consultation meetings if we could all see some photos of what the fields will look like on completion when full of Solar Panels. Their reply is always that they don’t have any as this is their first project like this. Why can’t they take a few photos of another companies fields of Solar Panels and present this to us on entering the consultation and say this is how our fields will look? I do NOT support ‘Mallard Pass’