mogish
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Post by mogish on Mar 27, 2024 16:11:37 GMT
Some may remember a posting I made regarding large scale solar farm proposed around my property .
Fast forward and its up for committee on 4th April. Signs ate that its goi g to be approved.
We have just had 2 years of construction traffic ruin the peace .the roads the environment building 2 battery storage farms.
My beef is, the objections massively exceeded the supports,the firm proposing the project were found to have made up a form and completing it with names of "supporters " applied fraudulently.
Local council seem to take absolutely no notice of any comments from communities and are solely driven by the need to tick the carbon footprint box. My gut is they commercial business rates they are getting is the deciding factor.
Mp, councillors and politicians I hate the bloody lot of them.
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Post by james100 on Mar 27, 2024 20:43:01 GMT
Some may remember a posting I made regarding large scale solar farm proposed around my property . Fast forward and its up for committee on 4th April. Signs ate that its goi g to be approved. We have just had 2 years of construction traffic ruin the peace .the roads the environment building 2 battery storage farms. My beef is, the objections massively exceeded the supports,the firm proposing the project were found to have made up a form and completing it with names of "supporters " applied fraudulently. Local council seem to take absolutely no notice of any comments from communities and are solely driven by the need to tick the carbon footprint box. My gut is they commercial business rates they are getting is the deciding factor. Mp, councillors and politicians I hate the bloody lot of them. On the fraudulent support, if you've got proof of it + the planning dept's apathy, making a public representation setting out the gory details via planning portal (or planning inspectorate if it gets there) etc. can be extremely cathartic. No, if a decision is predetermined it won't change. But you get the developer's dishonesty and the mysterious case of the planning department's missing backbone put on record for eternity.
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mogish
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Post by mogish on Mar 27, 2024 21:03:15 GMT
Councillors are being e mailled tomorrow. Local community council have some clever people on board. However the planning dept have agreed with all the proposers points re screening etc based on a desktop modelling!!  , can't even be bothered to get of the arses to look at the actual hedgerows etc. |
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Mar 28, 2024 22:37:25 GMT
Given RIPPLE at Kirk Hill is only paying 3.2pkWh so will take 17 years to repay the investment ...
we have similar here locals concerns including damage to a SSSI and listed buildings are poo poo'd by the inspectors
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mogish
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Post by mogish on Apr 1, 2024 14:59:00 GMT
My guess it's government plan to avoid any future energy issues .
Never mind we can keep the lights on but can't cook any home grown produce as we have used up all arable land and will be left at the mercy of food imports.
What's really annoying is the councillors that we voted in are completely useless in support of the local community.
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Apr 1, 2024 16:13:19 GMT
Fat brown envelopes perchance
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Post by mogish on Apr 1, 2024 18:28:33 GMT
Fat brown envelopes perchance Letter of complaint sent direct to Head of council cc councillors in. Will be (predictable) interesting response.
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Post by michaelc on Apr 1, 2024 18:45:26 GMT
Be grateful they're not 10,000 houses built without any new schools, GP surgeries any other infrastructure.
Also, I've no idea about your neck of the woods but round here it is typically the council "officers" that recommend these decision. The councillors are left to attempt to support local residents but often find it difficult to compete with officers as the latter are full time professionals and the former mostly working part-time.
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Apr 2, 2024 9:14:02 GMT
Having worked in Local Government, Officers are driven by National priorities and the local plan, often too little thought of what will and won't work in an area.
We have a proposal locally for some new houses, described as "luxury eco" with solar panels etc.
except they are at the bottom of a valley the sun, needs to be 60 degrees above horizon to hit them, and the road out is onto a blind corner that is an accident waiting to happen. of course the suggested prices around £250,000 is a joke when the average house price in the area is £140,000
but it's reusing a brownfield site...
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Post by mogish on Apr 2, 2024 15:28:47 GMT
Michaelc and kietha you are both correct. Officers make the decisions and report to committees.
Thete are 100s of new houses being built up here along with dozens of solar and battery farms.
The council seem hell bent on pushing ahead regdlessof the inevitable impact on farming, gp surgeries, dentist and a whole raft of public services unable to keep pace with the growing population.
I'm glad I'm nearing retirement ( council worker ironically)and can hopefully move a3ay to another country as this place and the UK in general is going down the pan
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Apr 2, 2024 20:24:51 GMT
Michaelc and kietha you are both correct. Officers make the decisions and report to committees. Thete are 100s of new houses being built up here along with dozens of solar and battery farms. The council seem hell bent on pushing ahead regdlessof the inevitable impact on farming, gp surgeries, dentist and a whole raft of public services unable to keep pace with the growing population. I'm glad I'm nearing retirement ( council worker ironically)and can hopefully move a3ay to another country as this place and the UK in general is going down the pan 30 years working for and with Local Authorities, only time I heard of someone being "caught for corruption" was a planning officer, the company concerned were caught for something and gave him up, He was sat on the settee watching the TV he'd been given.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 2, 2024 22:22:41 GMT
Michaelc and kietha you are both correct. Officers make the decisions and report to committees. Planning officers make straightforward decisions. Complicated or controversial decisions go to the planning committee, and are made by the councillors on that committee.
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Post by mogish on Apr 3, 2024 19:37:23 GMT
Michaelc and kietha you are both correct. Officers make the decisions and report to committees. Planning officers make straightforward decisions. Complicated or controversial decisions go to the planning committee, and are made by the councillors on that committee. Indeed. Officers make the decision online with planning policy. Councillors on the planning Committee took no notice or were not informed of the details of the case. Ie blatantly ignored the level of objections and recommended approval solely based on the proposers " evidence". Quite clearly fraudulent actions on behalf of the proposers which the council failed to investigate even when evidence was given.
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, can't even be bothered to get of the arses to look at the actual hedgerows etc.
