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Anyway, I’m sure that having read the article now you noticed that the couple in question are worried about the noise because they have an autistic daughter and moved there to get away from noise, which she’s especially sensitive to.
I’m not sure how it’s relevant that a substation from any other source wouldn’t be worse is relevant? If the panels weren’t behind their house then the substation wouldn’t be there either.
Small modular reactors? For the UK in particular these are a good option as we use the same tech in nuclear subs.
Or if you want to do solar specifically, lots of smaller scale solar developments that don’t take over an entire area (like 4 fields of solar in the middle of lots of normal fields, so you can avoid it or walk around it and it doesn’t create an enormous “no go” zone next to a rural village.
I don’t think anyone in this thread is really acknowledging the scale of this development, it’s a 1400 hectare site of which 900ha is panels. If you made that into a square it would he 3km x 3km of panels!
The noise is from the substation (it says so in the article).
Did you read the article?
One of the new plants being built in this area, Tillbridge, is the largest solar development to be granted planning permission so far. The project will cover approximately 1,400 hectares (3,460 acres), equivalent to 2,000 football pitches.
That’s absolutely enormous!
They are covering the area with panels because there is an existing grid connection from an old power station nearby that they can re-use. Makes sense from an engineering perspective but it’s a shocking planning decision, it’s not like a few fields of solar in the middle of lots of normal fields, people who live there now will be surrounded by them.
It really seems like bad policy to me, it turns something that should be a positive symbol that you could feel proud of as a local, into something that will feel really oppressive.
You’ve called these people racist, doubtless some are but I expect the majority are just desperate and only support reform because the alternatives aren’t representing them well on this issue.
Some of those are pretty cool…
New hobby unlocked!
Is that a thing? Haha
Not sure about that actually, I can just imagine it now
“Jeremy, I’ll give you this big marrow from my allotment and a packet of sunflower seeds if you help the poor”
No man could resist that kind of temptation
I agree with all of this except that “all politicians and their mates do” it.
Can you sound insulate a garden?
Again, I think if you read the article you’ll understand their issues a lot better.