Representation by Alan Morton
- Date submitted
- 28 February 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Dear Sirs, My comment is an objection to the proposed project on the basis that it will destroy an historic vista which should be preserved by order, and which will contain landmark and property likely subject to pre existing preservation orders. I put to the proposed project that it must not seek to change the vista, afforded to any onlooker, and specifically locally resident and domiciled homeowners and tenants, of the Eastern Trent River Plain, wetlands, delta and confluence from the highway B1398 between Lincoln city and the East / West M180 adjacent to the town of Scunthorpe. Specifically, according to the reflective construction of the solar panels, the vista will be changed from traditional and historic countryside and farmland, to localised and blanket coverage of mirror construction. My own home is proposed to be surrounded, meaning, according to the modus operandii of the equipment, I shall directly view mirrors to the north, and industrial metalwork to the south and I put to the proposers of the project that this is unreasonable and unfair, and completely erases the purpose of my home being "a house in the countryside". My home becomes a house in an industrial park, and this is not what I was promised (after due diligence taken at government offices) when I purchased. I suggest that the proposed scheme is unreasonable in its intentions to change my life and those in my local community. I suggest that the proposed scheme shows naivety in its expectations of disruption to the community during construction. I suggest that the proposed scheme is unrealistic according to its expectations of energy generation, whilst it is unreasonable to artificially achieve the required output from a sub station, by simply increasing the size of the input, so much of which yield is lost through physical inefficiencies of the available technology and materials to transport electricity over distances; bigger solar farms is not the solution to output loss through the delivery infrastructure. I further question that the proposed project does not serve to solve a problem of energy availability at an economic price, whilst now and forever, the price of electricity to consumers, regardless of how it is made, will be subject to market forces, driven and controlled by the "wholesale price". In this regard, I put to you, that it may be considered that, the proposed project fails to achieve any economic benefit, locally or nationally to consumers of electricity, and on this simple basis, it might be suggested that the proposed scheme that it is unviable, commercially untenable and socially destructive, therefore irresponsible of all and any parties who may garner support for a project which could be reflected in journal as charlatan. Your Faithfully Alan Morton