Representation by Samantha Curtis
- Date submitted
- 27 February 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
This project is a threat to rural communities in Lincolnshire, to the rich wildlife and biodiversity of the area but most importantly, to the food security of the British people. Lincolnshire is traditionally known as the Garden of England, with its acres of fields farmed, often by generations of farmers. Wheat, barley, rapeseed, sugar beet, maize, as well as grazing livestock, fields carpet this county, often as far as the eye can see. This project will leave rich food-producing land an industrial wasteland long after the life of the solar project has ended. Solar panel farms on this scale should not be happening in fields. Instead, put them on rooftops, on brownfield sites but not on land where we grow our food. I cannot stress how vehemently against this idea, I am. Not only that, but there are other solar farms planned in Lincolnshire which will see its beautiful landscape clad in glittering black monoliths, rather than the swaying heads of barley and wheat we need to feed our families with. Such a dramatic change to the nature and fabric of Lincolnshire will have an immediate and lasting impact, changing the county's innate rural identity. Support farmers to FARM and produce food rather than feel their best option is to sell-up and turn the land over to energy companies, some of which are not even based in Britain. I am against this project.