Residents continue to battle against global companies industrialising almost 10,000 acres of productive farmland. The area is big enough to swallow the whole of Lincoln City, an area where 110,000 people live and work. With little or no local benefit, it is you and I who pay for all this through inflated electricity prices on lifetime contracts – costs our country can ill afford. The applications are fronted by pop-up companies with no capital to cover any costs, should anything go wrong.
Meanwhile vast acres of commercial roof lie vacant. In other countries, the Government requires all new build to be energy efficient and all commercial roofs covered in the next five years, including car parks, on railways and motorways. Yes, they may need to use the modern super-light panels, upgrade the grid in places, but best of all, use the energy on site and cut the grid out.
Just in our immediate area, we already have Springwell 4,200 acres, Fosse Green and Leoda 2,400 acres each, vast lithium battery storage at Navenby, Wellingore, Welbourn, Aubourn and Coleby and a 32 acre field for a huge “substation” less than a mile from the village of Navenby.
If all of the applications nationally go ahead, we would be ten times oversupplied. We need to make significant objections so this Cliff Edge set does not go ahead.
Thank you for your brilliant support to date. Covering thousands of acres of our farmland for 60 years with soon-outdated solar industry, while 630,000 acres of commercial roofs lie vacant, is just daft. The money comes from our pockets in a life-time of raised electricity bills on long-term contracts to profit foreign or global companies, leaving no capacity for new and better options.
We are up against a huge machine and need every bit of help we can get! We have succeeded on other seemingly very difficult applications before, and we need to do it again. In summary, if this was really about renewables, the Government would require all new build to be energy efficient, all commercial roofs to have solar and a bigger drive for insulation so we can use less
I chair the Cliff Villages Solar Action Group (CVSAG), meeting fortnightly with a very impressive team. We had packed halls at public meetings held in Navenby, Welbourn and Brant Broughton. Thank you very much indeed for signing the petition, writing letters and donating to enable professional support. Can you help a little more? www.cvsag.org The petitions are being submitted to both County Council and District Councils and we are gathering a thousand letters for Ed Miliband. I also have a parliamentary meeting on March 10th and am working through my national channels as well, and the National Solar Alliance.
Make sure you count! Join the rally!
Saturday, 15th March 10.30 for 11am start, with banners – homemade or otherwise! Cornhill, Lincoln. Solar on roofs, not farmland. Our local group is meeting from 10.30am, to look after each other and create more of a voice together, hopefully big enough ot be noticed by Parliament! Welcome from the Cliff Villages Action Group
Public Meeting at Navenby
Around two hundred people filled every seat in the Venue at Navenby on Monday this week. Residents are very concerned about the construction of a vast electricity sub-station close to the village and the 7,000 acres of Solar panels nearby.
Bicker Fen Electricity sub-station (pictured) is the same size as the one proposed on Green Man Road at Navenby.
Presentation from Mark Brindley, Chair of Thorpe on the Hill. presentation-for-navenby-meeting (lincolnshire.gov.uk)
Presentation from Marianne Overton MBE