Back to list Cottam Solar Project

Representation by Graham Ian Worthington

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

I cannot countenance the loss of prime agricultural land at a time when as a country we need food security. The marketing material of the contractor is duplicitous. As electricity produced is sold at market rates the only beneficiary of the production of cheap energy is the producer not the consumer. The use of compulsory purchase for the benefit of private companies, The strange changes to the company structure of the main contractors parent company, The main contactor being foreign based which will be used to avoid UK taxation. A good idea but using the wrong land, why aren't all new developments both residential and commercial required to incude either solar or wind energy generation as I believe as proposed to government quite some years ago