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VBB Mar 3, 2011 08:54:17
Replying to ocifant

ocifant wrote:
tjj wrote:
From what I've read in subsequent posts, you have been working on a project concerning their use at some heritage sites .. so may I take this opportunity of wishing you well with that.
Thanks June. Plans and discussions are ongoing on the project. I won't say more at this stage, other than "watch this space".
If that space is in Avebury then someone will perhaps be encouraged by recent events to put in to build on it and Wilts planners judging by those same events are likely to be sympathetic no matter what objections are made by conservationists on behalf of the WHS that is supposed to take precedence.

What are we going to say to a field of solar panels with the odd monuments stiicking out?

N nigelswift
nigelswift Mar 3, 2011 09:00:14
Replying to VBB

So who owns our heritage?

Kennett Planning Committee.

It's a fact, with ample evidence that it is true.

R Resonox
Resonox Mar 3, 2011 09:30:48
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VBB wrote:
What are we going to say to a field of solar panels with the odd monuments stiicking out?
That paints a truly horrifying picture...but not necessarily an unlikely one.
I have seen photographs of some Welsh countryside....with these great big "alternative energy sources" all over the place.
However the most frightening thing was actually seeing the amount of them on Scottish hillsides....I don't know how much electricity they produce...but the sheer number of them MUST be powering the whole National Grid.

I did wonder though as reghards to the siting of these "windmills" was any archeology excavations taken prior to their erection....who knows what cairns, dwellings or barrows etc have been obliterated.

T tjj
tjj Mar 3, 2011 13:00:10
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VBB wrote:
If that space is in Avebury then someone will perhaps be encouraged by recent events to put in to build on it and Wilts planners judging by those same events are likely to be sympathetic no matter what objections are made by conservationists on behalf of the WHS that is supposed to take precedence.

What are we going to say to a field of solar panels with the odd monuments stiicking out?

Surely the only sensible place to put solar panels is on roofs - I understand a couple of panels generates enough energy to heat the average home with enough left over to sell back to the National Grid.