Representation by Sue Mayman
- Date submitted
- 5 March 2024
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I first bought a property in rural Foggathorpe 30 years ago with a dream to move to a small village with an abundance of green fields, trees, hedgerows and stunning wildlife . Away from the hustle and bustle and pollution. I do not want our villages to change . Please leave our countryside alone and select an area closer to power stations with more suitable infrastructure. Leave our fields so they can grow crops . Leave our countryside so we can all enjoy the peace and quiet and quality of life it has to offer . We don’t want heavy traffic and industrial solar panels . .Please leave our beautiful rural villages unspoilt and let us enjoy and live peacefully. Please allow our wildlife to continue to flourish.. The combined area of solar panels is10,000 acres. This will materially affect the local landscape. The sheer scale of the proposals is excessive. Has the loss of food producing land been adequately considered given that with events in Ukraine we are likely to be more dependent on home grown food? The disruption caused by the construction and traffic will be huge. The environment will be irretrievably damaged. We live in a pleasant rural area. This green and pleasant land will be irretrievably lost and ruined. I cannot imagine this proposal being passed in an area such as the Cotswolds for example. Instead of greenfield sites why not brownfield sites nearer the power stations, busy roads etc? How safe are the proposed installations? What about fire risks? There will be environmental damage. Wildlife will be affected adversely. The scale of the proposed works are surely disproportionate to the benefits.