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Representation by Cammeringham Parish Council (Cammeringham Parish Council)

Date submitted
29 March 2023
Submitted by
Parish councils
  1. Much of the scheme is being built of good quality grade 3A land, which would be better suited to agriculture. 2. Farmland should not be used for solar sites until all other locations have been explored - in particular roofs of commercial building and houses. All new houses should have mandatory pv panels in their roofs. Commercial buildings should have panels retro fitted on existing buildings and new buildings should have pv panels as part of building regulations. 3. The local roads will not cope with the building works; many of them are in an awful condition at present. 4. The combined scale of the 4 proposed schemes in the West Lindsey area is too great a concentration. 5. Solar panels with circa 10% efficiency are poor use of technology, small nuclear is a better solution. The recent budget pointed strongly towards the use of small scale nuclear to achieve 25% of current needs. The government plans to categorise nuclear as “environmentally sustainable”. 6. This scheme is being objected to by both the District Council and the County Council; they should not be overruled. 7. There is no benefit at all to most local people; in fact, quite the opposite.