Whilst I am a big supporter of our climate changeย ๐ณ ambitions and the fact we were the first country to cement zero carbon emissions by 2050 in law - the proposals put forward by Island Green Power are completely unacceptable in this location.ย
The proposals currently include a ginormous battery storage site - the size of ๐๐๐ shipping containers - being dumped on a hill dwarfing Whitley and the surrounding villages with cabling from the panels crossing miles of countryside including Gastard and Notton.ย
โ๏ธ This site regularly floods and making it unsuitable and potentially dangerous.
๐ Villagers believe that the proposed site in Whitley may well be the location of Roman ruins underneath.
๐ฉโ๐พ The site is absolutely humongous and would cover three different parliamentary constituencies (under the new boundaries) crossing so much agricultural land.ย
๐จ The scale of the site means that the installation would cause huge problems for local residents and the local economy with delays and volumes of HGVs etc.
โ๏ธ We have already been taking our fair share. We ๐ฏ % need more solar and more solar panels on houses ๐ , buildings ๐ญ and shops ๐ - however Wiltshire already has ๐ out of the ๐๐ largest solar parks in England, on top of many smaller scale solar parks.
๐๐ป I attended the information session in Shaw and met with the developers to ask questions and make my views clearย
๐๐ป I am working with Cllr Phil Alford and James Gray MP and will be organising meetings with Ministers and members of the local campaign team
๐๐ป Sign my petition here and letโs make it clear together that this is the wrong siteย
๐๐ป Do feed into the consultation hereย https://www.limedownsolar.co.uk/consultation
