HELP SAVE HARDY’S VALE – Visit: http://www.savehardysvale.com
STOP THIS 188 ACRE GIANT SOLAR FARM
IN AN AREA THAT FLOODS!
BE READY TO OBJECT
If, as expected, a Planning Application is submitted, then to object to the industrial-scale destruction of a protected biodiverse landscape, described by Dorset Council as “HIGHLY SENSITIVE TO LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENT”, you must write to the Council Planners. The detail of how to do that is on our website.
The Council will advertise the date when the 21-day public consultation will start and you can follow our Web and Facebook pages to keep informed. For guidance, visit our web:
and take the link to: ‘Writing to the Planners’ ALL OBJECTIONS MUST BE BASED ON ‘MATERIAL PLANNING GROUNDS’.
THIS IS WHAT JUST 7 ACRES OF PANELS LOOK LIKE – Imagine 188 Acres !!
THE DEVELOPER’S ASSESSMENTS, SENT TO DORSET COUNCIL, IDENTIFY THAT THE SITE IS:
6 KILOMETRES OF SECURITY FENCING WITH SECURITY CAMERAS ABOUT EVERY 50 METRES, SHIPPING CONTAINERS, INVERTERS AND CONTROL EQUIPMENT
WITHIN THE IMPACT ZONES OF THE HOLNEST SSSI, ROOKMORE COPSE SAC &
ALNER GORSE BUTTERFLY RESERVE
PART OF THE SITE HOLDS THE REMAINS OF A MEDIAEVAL FIELD SYSTEM
ADJACENT TO THE HARDY WAY LONG DISTANCE PATH & SURROUNDED BY
PATHS & BRIDLEWAYS
HAS A PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY RUNNING THROUGH THE SITE
IN ADDITION, THE PM ANNOUNCED THAT ENERGY FROM OFFSHORE WIND
WILL POWER ALL HOMES IN THE COUNTRY
THE URGENT NEED TO SWITCH TO GREEN ENERGY MUST NOT DESTROY
SPECIAL LANDSCAPES AND COUNTRYSIDE (Mrs Justice Lang U.K. High
Court Justice ruling 2012)
ADJACENT TO THE RIVER LYDDEN FLOOD PLAIN WHERE EXACERBATED
FLOODING WILL THREATEN LOCAL ROADS AND HOMES
PUTS AT RISK WILD LIFE –OTTERS, KINGFISHERS & MANY OTHER BIRDS
The climate crisis is real. We recognise the urgent need to switch to
renewable energy and move away from fossil fuels. But, like many
who care about the Dorset countryside and its cultural heritage, we
believe that photovoltaic panels should be on roofs, brownfield land,
alongside major roads or set in the context of previously developed
areas – close to where the generated energy is needed. We should not
be covering productive farmland or harming highly valued and protected landscapes in the heart of the Blackmore Vale.
Protect a very special environment which our Council called ‘Dorset’s greatest economic asset’.
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