Where are all the Sheep?: Reality vs Marketing

Weed covered solar farm in Wiltshire

Sheep. According to DEFRA there are about 36 million sheep in the UK. That means that there is about one sheep for every two people! So where are they all? and why arn't we literally tripping over them?

The simple truth is because they are farmed on the low grade land across the country. Sheep inhabit the Welsh Mountains, the Lake District, Dartmoor and Exmoor, The Yorkshire Moors and Yorkshire Dales. They are the creatures of the wild open places.

Monitoring the countryside: People must not go where the weeds now grow

That is why it is very unlikely that you will ever find them fenced in to an industrial solar site, where the grass will struggle to grow in the shade and the exposed cable routes would provide an ever present danger to any livestock.

Print your own poster

You can help draw attention to the plight of Ash Thomas by printing off and displaying the simple message 'SAY NO TO SOLAR PARK'

Just go to the SAY NO TO SOLAR PARK tab on this website and print it off and put it in your window, car, hedge, gate etc

Letter to the Halberton Parish Council

Mike Bull wrote to the Halberton Parish Council on behalf of the community to express our continued objections to the proposed development. A copy of the letter is published on this website, on the tab called Letter to Halberton Parish Council

Community Team delivers hundreds of leaflets

Leaflets have now been delivered to hundreds of homes throughout the local area surrounding the proposed solar site.

A copy of the full text of the leaflet can be seen on the Leaflet tab at the top of this page.

It was a huge task and our thanks go out to every one who helped; from writing to proof reading and printing to final delivery.

Next Parish Planning Meeting Confirmed

The next Halberton PC Planning Committee meeting will be on 

Tuesday 24 June 2014 

at 7.30 

in the 

Jubilee Room in the Halberton Village Hall 

Even the cat came!

Today’s meeting was very well attended, even the village cat came!

The key points were:

DON'T BE DOWN HEARTED: Don't be put off or feel down hearted by this re-submission. It was to be expected.

It is VERY IMPORTANT to let both Halberton Parish and the Mid Devon District Council know if you object.

WRITE AGAIN: You may have written letters to the council before but if you still object, you must write again. Your previous letters will not be considered as a part of this application, so its vital that you write again. Do it in your own words and let them know what you think.

Next Meeting: Friday 13th June at 7 o'clock

The next meeting will be held in 
Ash Thomas 
Village Hall 

on 
Friday 13th June
2014 at 7 o'clock

Griff Rhys Jones agrees: Don't Build on Good Land

Picture from the BBC website

The government has rejected a plan for a 43,000-panel solar farm near Ipswich, following a campaign by opponents, who included comedian Griff Rhys Jones.

Babergh District Council refused to grant planning permission last year for the £25m project at Valley Farm, Tattingstone, Suffolk

Developers Hive Energy appealed to the government's Planning Inspectorate, which has now also turned it down.

Campaigners said the farm was out of place in a "special landscape".
Mr Griff Rhys Jones said: "This is not a victory for climate change deniers, it is a victory for sensible planning of what remains an urgent requirement.

"The inquiry simply said 'don't build solar farms on beautiful land' and we should all agree with that."

Read the full story here

Planning Details Published - 14/00889/MFUL

 

The new plans are now on the MDDC site with the new number 14/00889/MFUL at:

 

http://docs.middevon.govuk/pap/index.asp?caseref=14/00889/MFUL

 

The dates are already on the MDDC website and can be seen at 

http://planning.middevon.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=dates&keyVal=N6P7J9KS02T00

The deadline for submissions is the  27th June.