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West Burton Solar Project

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  • Frank Donaldson

    No to land being used for wind and solar power. The North Sea is the place for this money making scheme. What happened to tree and hedge row planting for tax or has that scheme stopped now in favour... Read more

  • George Roworth

    It is very disappointing that it is deemed necessary to remove productive arable farm land from the food and energy chain when the resources could surely be used to offer solar panels on rent free... Read more

  • Mark Edgar

    My main concerns are the loss of agricultural, food producing land and the loss of habitat for wildlife

  • Samantha Curtis

    I am wholeheartedly against this project using Lincolnshire agricultural land

  • Barbara Doughty

    I strongly object to this proposal. It would mean a great loss of good farmland and a loss of jobs in the farming sector. Loss of important open space (highlighted as essential in the Local Plan)... Read more

  • Bethan Godley

    This would completely ruin the rural community I call home. It would increase food insecurity. It would take away beautiful countryside from people who live here and enjoy walking dogs, riding bikes... Read more

  • Brattleby Parish Council (Brattleby Parish Council)

    The solar project is using valuable farm land required to provide food and use for animal grazing, the size is disproportionate particularly when taking into account the other projects which... Read more

  • Derek Rose

    Food producing land should not be lost to solar. Wildlife will be affected as they will not be able to live and travel on the land proposed for the solar farm. The production of electricity from solar... Read more

  • Gary Herbert Davey

    I object to this proposed solar project for the following reasons. 1) The land that is to be used is at present used to provide food security for the nation. 2) Lincolnshire farmland is one of the... Read more

  • Joan Sykes

    The land is good food producing land both arable and for livestock, we need this land to be able to be as self sufficient as we can to stop importing food from abroad. Also for wild life hedges etc. I... Read more

  • Neil Elliott

    Removing Valuable Agricultural Land out of Use:- This is completely unacceptable and as an independent county of the United Kingdom we are striving for self sufficiency to support our British farmers... Read more

  • Steven Rose

    This is good productive agricultural land producing food, which should not be lost to solar. More suitable sites should be used. Ie. Brown field site. The impact on wildlife that travels across this... Read more

  • Teresa Minucci

    a company asking to turn thousands of acres of farmland into a huge solar panel farm, instead of putting them on existing houses and buildings, and on all the new houses being built in Lincolnshire,... Read more

  • Christine Elizabeth Larkin

    'I am horrified by the prospect of this project. Lincolnshire has always been, and must remain, an agricultural county. The efficacy of solar power is still unproven in this country. It seems absurd... Read more

  • Emma Othmen

    Access for local farmers and delivery to the farms and visitors as one of the main roots for the workmen in down a single track lane near the rail way as lorries already have to reverse down lane and... Read more

  • Giles Walter

    1. Decarbonisation a. I fully accept that we as a country need to embrace the decarbonisation agenda and that solar plays an important role, but it must be installed in the correct places. The UK is... Read more

  • Julian Plews

    I strongly object to the West Burton solar farm proposal. It is just 1 of 4 Solar, Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) within a few miles of each other and together these would... Read more

  • Tracy Adderley

    I strongly object to the West Burton solar farm proposal. It is just 1 of 4 Solar, Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) within a few miles of each other and together these would... Read more

  • Christopher Horsman

    I object to the destruction of productive farmland to site solar panels that can be located in more appropriate sites such as on rooftops and alongside motorways.

  • Elizabeth Oakley

    This will cause the destruction of the local wildlife.

  • Helen Mckibbens

    U are going to destroy bushes and trees etc etc,we all know this is all a farce to suit the minority,u are going to kill lots of wild life.I am so disgusted by what is going on.even if we where to get... Read more

  • Jakki Wetherall

    The main issue is the industrialisation of thousands of acres of food producing farmland for solar sites and the removal of miles and miles of hedges from the Lincolnshire countryside, the bread... Read more

  • Jennifer Ives

    I oppose this, why ruin good farming land in Lincolnshire. Lincolnshire provides so much food products for the nation. Solar panels could still be used on commercial buildings or old airfields but not... Read more

  • Mark Linley

    I am concerned about the environmental impact of a development of this scale, including the decimation of hedgerows and the subsequent ecological impact.

  • Trevor Edwards

    Loss of good farm land and hedges, damage to wildlife and environment,dangers of batteries to health and water supplies in event of fire, reduced carbon capture, dangers to appearance of environment... Read more