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  • Jonathan Allen

    Construction issues: 2 years of noise, light pollution, disruption and damage across 2,105 acre site and surrounding area. *Cabling to new sub-station may now run through Essendine on A6121 with... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 18 February 2023

  • Lauren Allen

    Construction issues: 2 years of noise, light pollution, disruption and damage across 2,105 acre site and surrounding area. *Cabling to new sub-station may now run through Essendine on A6121 with... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 18 February 2023

  • Mary Johnston

    I am opposed to this project on so many levels and have no confidence that it will be cost effective or appropriate for the country's energy needs long term. Our country needs to protect its... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 18 February 2023

  • Pete Holland

    As a local resident to the Mallard Pas site, i want to register to be able to keep up to date with the progression of the application and also to be able to add my views and thoughts. In principle, I... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 18 February 2023

  • Sarah Elmore

    I am someone who uses the bridle way Bra/1/1 on a regular basis I love the beauty of the countryside,this beautiful area will be ruined for walkers and riders who don’t use the paths to get from A to... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 18 February 2023

  • Sharon Whincop

    Solar is the least efficient of all renewable energy sources. On average it can only deliver 11% of its stated output. On-shore wind is 3 times more efficient, off-shore even more efficient. That's... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 18 February 2023

  • Carolyn Hamilton

    I was born in Oakham and grew up in Uppingham. I know Rutland well and am horrified at the shear scale of this project. Essendine would be obliterated with residents unable to move. Also the... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Geoff Cooper

    Apart from the fact this is right in the middle of several villages when it could be built anywhere more remote with less impact and protest from locals - there is land that is unsuitable for farming... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Guy William Frank Gilman

    This development is on prime farmland and recent events have taught that we must be more self efficient with our food supply. It will be a major blight on the local landscape and Essendine will be... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • James Saralis

    I am a local resident and I would like to object to this proposal. The scale of the proposal is inappropriate for the location proposed. We are a small rural community surrounded by high quality... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Jasmine Ann Sorbi

    I feel the Mallard Pass solar farm proposed around our beautiful villages will be not only be far too large but hugely inefficient clustering sub-stations with disastrous consequences for the... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Jeremy Whittingham

    I believe that we should support infrastructure projects and I am well aware that there will always be an impact on both local people and the surrounding environment. This particular solar farm does... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Jonathan Jelley

    I am strongly against these proposals on so many levels: sheer scale visual impact sourcing concerns loss of habitat traffic impact loss of productive land loss of amenity safety concerns increased... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Josh Pollock

    Sirs, I wish to register my support for this scheme. Given the current energy crisis and concerns about food security, Mallard pass seems to be a bit of a lightning conductor for anti-solar sentiment... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Martin John Ball

    It is my considered opinion that the proposed Mallard Pass Solar Farm development is inappropriate in scale as it will take out of production too much prime agricultural land all in one place. I also... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Mr M R Chapman

    I am a local resident who will be affected by this development directly I have diligently attended the webinar’s and consultation meetings, I have read with interest every report published by MPSF,... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Mrs Karen Parsons

    Wildlife being affected also extra traffic on the country roads

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Mrs Sue Renner

    I strongly oppose the erection of this massiveSolar Farm as it will blight our beautiful landscape and definitely have an adverse effect on the ecology of this natural environment. Not only will it... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Patricia Burbidge

    It will ruin viable agricultural land and destroy the ancient natural landscape. There must be unused industrial sites or non productive land that is not close to growing residential areas that can be... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Rebecca Myatt

    This is an appalling use of agricultural land, which could bring serious and long-term environmental and economic destruction to this green rural space for years to come.

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Sharon Laryea

    While I support renewable energy, the sheer size of this development proposal is grotesque in its scale and in my opinion the adverse impact on the local area seriously outweighs any upside. We made a... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Stephen Robert Davies

    I am extremely concerned that there will be an excessive switch from prime agricultural land to power generation which should be undertaken in more environmentally friendly ways. In addition, I am... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Susan Burgoin

    This project will be a huge impact on the local environment, villagers, general public, wildlife, biodiversity and habitats. There will be (yet another) loss of food producing land and agriculture, as... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Violet L Cook

    I live in the area designated for the Solar Farm proposal and I’m very unhappy about it. 1. I do not think Stamford should have to bear such a huge responsibility for solar power when it is a rural,... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 17 February 2023

  • Alexandra Couzens

    The whole of the village of Essendine will be surrounded by solar panels, both ruining the area for those living there and turning it into an industrial zone. The plans themselves cover over 2,000... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Andrew Jenkins

    I wish to object to the Mallard Pass Solar Farm project. i) It is totally out of scale for the landscape that will be affected by the development and will have a detrimental effect on local... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Ann Creamer on behalf of Barry Creamer. Pamela Manley. Peter Manley. (Barry Creamer. Pamela Manley. Peter Manley.)

    The sheer scale of MPSF is unprecedented, their Proposed Development Area would be the largest in the UK, and in Europe.2. The perimeter stretches over 25 miles, 4.2 miles end to end.3. The sheer... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Barry Hugh Morris

    Size. Impact on daily life. Degradation of of roads etc., Take up of productive land. Impact on the local environment.Forced aquisition .

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Chantelle Beecham

    I believe this application shouldn’t go ahead as I have lived in the village all my life and to see fields being fenced off and big solar panels in the fields will ruin the country side

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Christian Nichol

    Solar farms are not the way forward our country as we are not big enough for them they spoil the country side for us and damage/kill wildlife. For them to make a big enough impact we would have to... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Community Planning Alliance (Community Planning Alliance)

    Our position is strongly in favour of net zero goals and of solar generation. However, the planning system needs to balance our need as a nation for food security and the need to protect the... Read more

    Submitted by: Non-statutory organisations
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Darren Hogan

    My main issues with the solar farm is the vast area it will take up and destroy. It will do a lot of harm for the wildlife that relies on the land along with the trees and plants. Stamford is a... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • David Bryant

    My main concerns and objections about the proposal to build a vast solar power station across over 2000 acres of agricultural land in the heart of a rural area are: The scale of the development. 2,105... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • David Johnson

    Whilst I fully support the aspiration of zero carbon and clean green energy, this must be balanced against other considerations. Food security is possibly even more important, and the amenity value of... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Gregory Hooper

    Dear Sir / Madam, I am writing to you to raise my objection to the proposed Mallard pass Solar farm: I have a number of objections as follows: The size and scale of the solar farm, the proposed solar... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Janine Dykes

    Loss of important farmland No benefit to local people Solar is the least efficient renewable energy source Impact to wildlife Flooding potential Negative impact to the character of the countryside It... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Jemma Holland

    Scale of the development is unnecessarily large with a significant impact on the community, landscape and ecology. I ride horses on an already busy road where they propose to drive the construction... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • John Robert Crosse

    1/ How will you replace the thousands of acres of prime agricultural land that this scheme will occupy? 2/ Why is it such a strange shape? 3/ Why is it not being situated on a brown field site or on... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Kathryn Maitland

    I object as strongly as I know how to this project. Solar is the least efficient of all renewable energy sources. On average it can only deliver 11% of its stated output. On-shore wind is 3 times more... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Lin Jeveons

    Too large an area. Waste of good agricultural land. No guarantee of what will happen long term to land and disposal of panels. Solar farms not cost effective enough to warrant the damage caused. No... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Lois Marion Webb

    REF ; MALLARD PASS SOLAR FARM My letter of objections. 16th February 2023 1. The planning of this gigantic area of solar panels should not happen because it would desecrate a huge amount of Farming... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Matthew Desmond Maitland

    I am against the proposed project. - Any solar panels should be on all new builds and on brown field sites. - The farmland that it is proposed to be sited on is of a good quality and farmland in the... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Mrs Jacqueline Rostam

    Totally unsuitable . The area is dotted with old medieval villages linked to the surrounding agricultural land and the beautiful nearby town of Stamford. The area is a special place ,the land good... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Nigel A.S. Kettle

    I have known the proposed site well for more than 60 years, having lived in Stamford, worked in Essendine and spent many happy hours wandering in the countryside, travelling on the area's footpaths... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Nyree Stanley

    I own a house in Essendine and this Mallard project is far too large and will bring the house prices down, the roads around great Casterton where I live are already overloaded with construction... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Patricia Jane Dale

    Although Mallard Pass have reduced the total area to 2,105 acres and the solar area to 1,053 acres, this is still very large an area using some good quality agricultural land and sited very close to... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Philip Andrew Britton

    Comments upon the proposed development of Mallard Pass Solar Farm. I wish to record my objections to the planning proposal to develop Mallard Pass Solar Farm for the following reasons. 1. Best Most... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Philip Simon Douty

    Detrimental visual impact on the area and loss of amenity. Detrimental impact on wildlife. Flood risk increase. Safety fears in the event of an incident

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Richard Foster

    Whilst wholeheartedly in favour of solar power as a source of “clean energy “, I believe that the location, size and dominance of the proposed siting is inappropriate. Brown field sites should be... Read more

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023

  • Ross Dykes

    Loss of farm land No benefits for local people Lack of thought to where it could be put

    Submitted by: Members of the public/businesses
    Date submitted: 16 February 2023