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.
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Joshua Hawksley
12 years ago
I'm amazed such a beautiful area of countryside is even being considered for this solar installation. This really is not the place for a solar farm of this scale.
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Rebecca Wade
12 years ago
Only as recently as last week, Brussels reversed the need for member states to reach mandatory targets for low carbon energy. Dont let Babergh planners shut the door after the hore has bolted. New guide lines of 'best practice', are about to be published, which will make it easier for them to refuse the 'energy factories' a place in our green and pleasant land. Subsidies paid the hedgefund developers and to the farmer should stop. Setting up solar 'factories' in the country is cheap for the developer and farmers are seduced financially to defile the land that has not only fed them, but the country, since time began. Stop the madness. The need to stampede through planning policies in order to produce green energy IS OVER. We need to stop and reassess where we are before we go the way of Germany anf find we have blighted the countryside for every and bankrupted all our carbon free initiatives.
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Elaine Carpenter
12 years ago
I am in favour of solar power, but not on prime, ancient farmland. Find a disused airfield instead and preserve our precious, vanishing countryside.
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Toby Marks
12 years ago
Objection!
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Jane Taylor
12 years ago
I do not agree that farmland is a suitable site for such an installation
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Anonymous
12 years ago
In favour of solar power plants, but the sites have to be more carefully considered.
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Vicky O'Connell
12 years ago
Solar Power is a great thing, but not slap bang in the middle of ancient countryside.
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Julie Thorson
12 years ago
I believe that any ancient,beautiful farmland should be preserved.please save the beauty andhistory of this beautiful countryside!
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Olivia Fear
12 years ago
This a rediculous suggestion that should never have been made. The historic countryside in England is one of the only things we can be truly proud of, and is constantly being diminished. This is not something that should even be considered.
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James Crook
12 years ago
Save our countryside from the scouge of sola panels
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Laurence davis
12 years ago
Change is almost inevitable, but it needs to be balanced between the needs for power generation and the local peoples wishes.
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Benjamin Hammond
12 years ago
Britain is trying to get 15% of its energy, including electricity, heat and transport, from renewable sources within 6 years. Even the most avid proponents of green energy accept that we will still have to have the bulk of our energy from other sources and even if we do meet that 15% target (and we are far from it), it will only make the tiniest of dents in world carbon emissions. In fact, even if the whole of Europe reaches its renewables target, that would reduce carbon emissions by only 0.20% over the entire world. There’s so much carbon coming out of China and the great conurbations in the US, India and Russia that our reductions are insignificant. Meanwhile, look what we stand to lose: our heritage and in Box Valley, Suffolk some of the most beautiful, magical and mysterious landscapes anywhere in England all for some misunderstood emergency. It is hardly possible to imagine a bigger eyesore or a more sensitive spot in which to dump it.
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Stephen belcher
12 years ago
This so not the area
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Karen Tew
12 years ago
Solar developments should be located on brownfield sites and roof tops not on valuable and scenic agricultural land.
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Carol Collyer
12 years ago
We need to protect the beautiful Suffolk countryside. There must be plenty of other sites more suited to the building of a solar farm.
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Shellina Prendergast
12 years ago
Brownfield and roofs not on our greenfield
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Deirdre Battista
12 years ago
There needs to be public consultation before planning consent is granted by the Ll
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Jenny Cardle
12 years ago
The Uk is littered with disused concrete covered airfields!!
Suffolk, United Kingdom
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.
I'm amazed such a beautiful area of countryside is even being considered for this solar installation. This really is not the place for a solar farm of this scale.
Only as recently as last week, Brussels reversed the need for member states to reach mandatory targets for low carbon energy. Dont let Babergh planners shut the door after the hore has bolted. New guide lines of 'best practice', are about to be published, which will make it easier for them to refuse the 'energy factories' a place in our green and pleasant land. Subsidies paid the hedgefund developers and to the farmer should stop. Setting up solar 'factories' in the country is cheap for the developer and farmers are seduced financially to defile the land that has not only fed them, but the country, since time began. Stop the madness. The need to stampede through planning policies in order to produce green energy IS OVER. We need to stop and reassess where we are before we go the way of Germany anf find we have blighted the countryside for every and bankrupted all our carbon free initiatives.
I am in favour of solar power, but not on prime, ancient farmland. Find a disused airfield instead and preserve our precious, vanishing countryside.
Objection!
I do not agree that farmland is a suitable site for such an installation
In favour of solar power plants, but the sites have to be more carefully considered.
Solar Power is a great thing, but not slap bang in the middle of ancient countryside.
I believe that any ancient,beautiful farmland should be preserved.please save the beauty andhistory of this beautiful countryside!
This a rediculous suggestion that should never have been made. The historic countryside in England is one of the only things we can be truly proud of, and is constantly being diminished. This is not something that should even be considered.
Save our countryside from the scouge of sola panels
Change is almost inevitable, but it needs to be balanced between the needs for power generation and the local peoples wishes.
Britain is trying to get 15% of its energy, including electricity, heat and transport, from renewable sources within 6 years. Even the most avid proponents of green energy accept that we will still have to have the bulk of our energy from other sources and even if we do meet that 15% target (and we are far from it), it will only make the tiniest of dents in world carbon emissions. In fact, even if the whole of Europe reaches its renewables target, that would reduce carbon emissions by only 0.20% over the entire world. There’s so much carbon coming out of China and the great conurbations in the US, India and Russia that our reductions are insignificant. Meanwhile, look what we stand to lose: our heritage and in Box Valley, Suffolk some of the most beautiful, magical and mysterious landscapes anywhere in England all for some misunderstood emergency. It is hardly possible to imagine a bigger eyesore or a more sensitive spot in which to dump it.
This so not the area
Solar developments should be located on brownfield sites and roof tops not on valuable and scenic agricultural land.
We need to protect the beautiful Suffolk countryside. There must be plenty of other sites more suited to the building of a solar farm.
Brownfield and roofs not on our greenfield
There needs to be public consultation before planning consent is granted by the Ll
The Uk is littered with disused concrete covered airfields!!