Representation by Luke Oliver Thomas Graham
- Date submitted
- 1 March 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
For a country where land is very scarce and whose food production and self-sufficiency is already very perilous, it is a complete falsehood to assert that a good use of agricultural and natural habitat land would be to cover it with solar panels. Industrial buildings, retail buildings and warehouse/shipping/fulfilment buildings abound in the region many of which are built without the hugely advantageous opportunity of the barren roof spaces being used for solar gain. This is an obvious hole to fix first in the Government's righteous drive towards more sustainable energy and one that would be best fixed by central planning mandates. It is an obvious fallacy to suggest that to save the planet more of its green spaces must be destroyed while aspects of brown-field or already-built sites remain untapped; quite obviously the chief motivator behind the scheme as it stands is the profit stood to be made the developper. A better set of decision-making criteria would see this as an appalling mis-use of rural land.