Green Council: We have a climate emergency, we need to move away from fossil fuels and to clean green energy to stop climate change.
Solar farm enters stage right
Green Council: No! Not like that! It’ll spoil my view 🙁
Isn’t there still a massive years long back log for connecting these projects to the National Grid?
Nimbies really are some of the biggest drags on progressing this country. Wasn’t rejected for any environmental concerns, but because it “visually harms the landscape”. It’s literally farm fields, a landscape that’s already been heavily altered.
Folkestone. That famously tranquil part of the UK with its massive shipping container port and busy trunk road.
Imagine the blight a field of solar panels could do.
What is required to pull ourselves out of this ditch?
Why aren’t we being able to move forward?
>planning officers had recommended that members reject the scheme
Not so much Nimbys then, planning officers will have been guided by law, government guidance and precedents. Though of course Councillors could have overriden their professional advisors but then they would be criticised for that.
Fuck yeah! Here comes the climate apocalypse. Just get it over with, for God’s sake!
What’s the saying about wanting to change the world until it personally affects you, and then you don’t?
Something about flood and doorstep or something. It’s bugging the hell outta me!
I fully support solar energy, but I don’t understand why should we sacrifice fertile land while there are still so many uncovered parking lots, industrial areas, urban brownfields and government owned property.
It would be nice if this particular landowner could invest through a scheme that builds solar panels in such a location.
Fucking twats unwilling to make *any* sacrifices *whatsoever* in the face of climate change. There’s that blitz spirit people bang on about so often in this country. Fact is we need 50 years of panels and pylons everywhere until we get better solutions. Suck it up and stop fucking holding everyone back.
What do we want?
Renewable energy!
When do we want it?
No, not like that!…
I think the only fair thing to do is to approve a coal plant in its place.
The planners recommended refusal on the grounds of how much it will affect the landscape, before anyone blames dumb-arse NIMBY politicians. And politicians usually go with the recommendations of their officers.
Some really ignorant takes in these comments. It reads like a knee jerk daily mail comments section. They rejected this because it’s in an AONB quite far from Folkstone. There are plenty of solar farms in Kent and they are approved all the time on land not in an AONB, which is the majority. Had this been applied for say in a poor grade field not in an AONB or in one of the old coal mine sites (yes, Kent had coal mines) it would have been approved.
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Green Council: We have a climate emergency, we need to move away from fossil fuels and to clean green energy to stop climate change.
Solar farm enters stage right
Green Council: No! Not like that! It’ll spoil my view 🙁
Isn’t there still a massive years long back log for connecting these projects to the National Grid?
Nimbies really are some of the biggest drags on progressing this country. Wasn’t rejected for any environmental concerns, but because it “visually harms the landscape”. It’s literally farm fields, a landscape that’s already been heavily altered.
Folkestone. That famously tranquil part of the UK with its massive shipping container port and busy trunk road.
Imagine the blight a field of solar panels could do.
What is required to pull ourselves out of this ditch?
Why aren’t we being able to move forward?
>planning officers had recommended that members reject the scheme
Not so much Nimbys then, planning officers will have been guided by law, government guidance and precedents. Though of course Councillors could have overriden their professional advisors but then they would be criticised for that.
Fuck yeah! Here comes the climate apocalypse. Just get it over with, for God’s sake!
What’s the saying about wanting to change the world until it personally affects you, and then you don’t?
Something about flood and doorstep or something. It’s bugging the hell outta me!
I fully support solar energy, but I don’t understand why should we sacrifice fertile land while there are still so many uncovered parking lots, industrial areas, urban brownfields and government owned property.
It would be nice if this particular landowner could invest through a scheme that builds solar panels in such a location.
Fucking twats unwilling to make *any* sacrifices *whatsoever* in the face of climate change. There’s that blitz spirit people bang on about so often in this country. Fact is we need 50 years of panels and pylons everywhere until we get better solutions. Suck it up and stop fucking holding everyone back.
What do we want?
Renewable energy!
When do we want it?
No, not like that!…
I think the only fair thing to do is to approve a coal plant in its place.
The planners recommended refusal on the grounds of how much it will affect the landscape, before anyone blames dumb-arse NIMBY politicians. And politicians usually go with the recommendations of their officers.
Some really ignorant takes in these comments. It reads like a knee jerk daily mail comments section. They rejected this because it’s in an AONB quite far from Folkstone. There are plenty of solar farms in Kent and they are approved all the time on land not in an AONB, which is the majority. Had this been applied for say in a poor grade field not in an AONB or in one of the old coal mine sites (yes, Kent had coal mines) it would have been approved.