Whilst I am a big supporter of our climate change 🌳 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.
The proposals currently include a ginormous battery storage site - the size of 𝟐𝟎𝟎 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.
☔️ This site regularly floods and making it unsuitable and potentially dangerous.
😠 Villagers believe that the proposed site in Whitley may well be the location of Roman ruins underneath.
👩🌾 The site is absolutely humongous and would cover three different parliamentary constituencies (under the new boundaries) crossing so much agricultural land.
🚨 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.
☀️ We have already been taking our fair share. We 💯 % need more solar and more solar panels on houses 🏠, buildings 🏭 and shops 🛒 - however Wiltshire already has 𝟖 out of the 𝟏𝟎 largest solar parks in England, on top of many smaller scale solar parks.
👉🏻 I attended the information session in Shaw and met with the developers to ask questions and make my views clear
👉🏻 I am working with Cllr Phil Alford and James Gray and will be organising meetings with Ministers and members of the local campaign team
👉🏻 Sign my petition here and let’s make it clear together that this is the wrong site
👉🏻 Do feed into the consultation here https://www.limedownsolar.co.uk/consultation
