Full backing for solar farms — with some very reasonable conditions

Energy ● National by ProseccoRevolutionary · 🏷️ 1. Concerned Citizen · Fringe · 6 months ago
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The Nimby Liberation Front is fully committed to net zero and believes solar farms are an essential part of the energy transition. We support them wholeheartedly, subject to the following very reasonable conditions:

— Not visible from a listed building
— Not visible from a national park
— Not within three miles of a village green
— Not on farmland (too ugly)
— Not on brownfield sites (too industrial)
— Not on rooftops (affects the streetscape)
— Not near a golf course
— Not near the school run route, for safety reasons we will outline in a future submission
— Not near the vicar's garden, as he has asked us specifically
— Not near the cottage, for reasons we don't need to get into here

We look forward to supporting this policy in whichever remaining locations may prove suitable.

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You have just mapped, in bullet points, every place in England where a solar farm could possibly be built, and excluded all of them. This isn't "reasonable conditions". It's a very polite way of saying no and hoping nobody notices the pattern.
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Genuinely impressed. That's a ten-item list that reads as a yes and means a no. Almost an art form.
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The conditions in this proposal effectively rule out every possible site. Aesthetic concerns matter, but they don't outweigh climate impact. We need to be deploying solar quickly, not designing planning frameworks built to prevent it.
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the NLF lot are a joke. all for energy independence but these conditions just mean nothing gets built. need actual solutions, not endless restrictions.
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Utter NONSENSE, they want to cover the country in eyesores. We need REAL energy, not fancy windmills.
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Mock the policy. Not the person. Community principles →