The proposed site is next to our beautiful, ancient farmland (farmed by our family for over 150 years) and a few hundred meters from a wood which is a 'site of special scientific interest'.
It would ruin this piece countryside for the local people to enjoy. We are totally pro green energy BUT feel that this precious, ancient piece of British countryside is the wrong place for a solar farm of this scale. Solar farms belong on disused airfields, industrial buildings, wasteland, roofs. Please let Babergh District Council realise how important this is for everyone who lives in Newton Green and the surrounding Suffolk area (solar farms are popping up all over this area and some of them, like this one, we need to stop!). We are asking people who sign this petition to help us communicate to the planning officer Mr John Davies that this planning application must be stopped.
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Reached 500 supporters
January 25, 2014
January 25, 2014
The momentum is undeniable. This proves how many people care about saving our countryside.
Reached 100 supporters
January 24, 2014
January 23, 2014
We are approaching 500 signatures. Let us hit that mark today to show the council we mean business.
January 23, 2014
We are approaching one hundred signatures. Please send this link to your neighbors now so we hit that mark today.
338 Comments
I understood this area to be an area of outstanding beauty and, therefore, protected. Who is it who can be supported to flought all consideration of the lovely countyside and wish to site such an offensive looking project alongside a Grade One listed church and get away with it?
This is a particularly beautiful part of Suffolk and must not be industrialised by such a huge development. As Greg Barker MP, minister of state for solar energy said recently, solar belongs on roof tops and brownfield sites not open countryside.
It does not make sense to use good quality farmland for solar farms which have a guaranteed life of 25 years. This land will be needed to grow food. there is plenty of low grade land available even in this small country.
Having worked in and around this incredibly unique and beautiful part of the Suffolk countryside I am outraged that this proposal can go ahead considering the history and more importantly the conservation for natural habitat and wildlife that has been ongoing for many years now
Progress is to endure without doing harm. These villages are not just "enough space for whatever" this is history, farms, residents who have roots planted deep in the soil for generations. Put your solar farm on the roofs of public buildings, government buildings, museums, you get the idea,
Someone needs to rethink! There's definitely a better location out there.
This is madness destroying the countryside and peoples land
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The proposed site is next to our beautiful, ancient farmland (farmed by our family for over 150 years) and a few hundred meters from a wood which is a 'site of special scientific interest'.
It would ruin this piece countryside for the local people to enjoy. We are totally pro green energy BUT feel that this precious, ancient piece of British countryside is the wrong place for a solar farm of this scale. Solar farms belong on disused airfields, industrial buildings, wasteland, roofs. Please let Babergh District Council realise how important this is for everyone who lives in Newton Green and the surrounding Suffolk area (solar farms are popping up all over this area and some of them, like this one, we need to stop!). We are asking people who sign this petition to help us communicate to the planning officer Mr John Davies that this planning application must be stopped.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
January 25, 2014
January 25, 2014
The momentum is undeniable. This proves how many people care about saving our countryside.
Reached 100 supporters
January 24, 2014
January 23, 2014
We are approaching 500 signatures. Let us hit that mark today to show the council we mean business.
January 23, 2014
We are approaching one hundred signatures. Please send this link to your neighbors now so we hit that mark today.
338 Comments
I am not a NIMBY - however, this is such a beautiful ancient landscape, which we have protected from Pylons - and now this!! Why are there no planning regulations set out for this, when in suffolk, you need to ask for planning permission for everything you do on a house!!
I understood this area to be an area of outstanding beauty and, therefore, protected. Who is it who can be supported to flought all consideration of the lovely countyside and wish to site such an offensive looking project alongside a Grade One listed church and get away with it?
This is a particularly beautiful part of Suffolk and must not be industrialised by such a huge development. As Greg Barker MP, minister of state for solar energy said recently, solar belongs on roof tops and brownfield sites not open countryside.
It does not make sense to use good quality farmland for solar farms which have a guaranteed life of 25 years. This land will be needed to grow food. there is plenty of low grade land available even in this small country.
Having worked in and around this incredibly unique and beautiful part of the Suffolk countryside I am outraged that this proposal can go ahead considering the history and more importantly the conservation for natural habitat and wildlife that has been ongoing for many years now
Progress is to endure without doing harm. These villages are not just "enough space for whatever" this is history, farms, residents who have roots planted deep in the soil for generations. Put your solar farm on the roofs of public buildings, government buildings, museums, you get the idea,
Someone needs to rethink! There's definitely a better location out there.
This is madness destroying the countryside and peoples land
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I am not a NIMBY - however, this is such a beautiful ancient landscape, which we have protected from Pylons - and now this!! Why are there no planning regulations set out for this, when in suffolk, you need to ask for planning permission for everything you do on a house!!