Submitted by Jonathan Wilde on Monday 18th March 2024
Published on Monday 15th April 2024
Current status: Open
Open until: Tuesday 15th October 2024
Current Signatures: 3,590
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Ban wind farm onshore asset development on green belt land
We want the Government to ban wind farm onshore asset development on green belt land. We don't think local authorities are enforcing the National Planning Policy Framework to protect the greenbelt from inappropriate development.
We are concerned that in locations such as the Fylde, building windfarm onshore assets and laying the associated cabling on the greenbelt could hamper tourism, destroy high-quality farmland and ruin habitats for protected species. We want the available brownfield land to be utilised for development of wind farm onshore assets.
We believe that the use of concrete offsetting water in saturated land in the construction of windfarm onshore assets could increase flooding. We are also concerned that substations built close to homes and schools could be audible 24/7 and rural land would be industrialised when there are alternative routes, which we believe have far less impact. We think that such plans are being made for profit, not the environment.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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