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This is the first in a series of articles where we shall look at the competency (or otherwise) of the Stonestreet Green Solar promoter, Evolution Power.
A significant part of their proposed solar scheme is located on the East Stour floodplain, which of course is susceptible to flooding as confirmed by the Environment Agency’s flood mapping data. The red line boundary of the proposal in the vicinity of Evegate Mill and Backhouse Wood is shown on the plan below:
Solar panels upstream of the Aldington flood alleviation scheme - Really?
Evolution Power’s initial plans located solar panels upstream of the bund that controls the flow of water along the East Stour River and prevents flooding in Mersham, Ashford and Canterbury. As we all know (and the photograph below shows) this area floods now almost every winter, with water depths well in excess of a metre. After we lobbied the Environment Agency about this extraordinary aspect of the scheme, Evolution Power decided to remove these panels and other equipment. However, we are left wondering why it was that this area was included in the first place. We maintain there are only two possible reasons:
- Evolution Power had failed to check the relevant and easily accessible flood data for the area which shows its susceptibility to serious flooding or,
- They only included this area in the expectation that the Environment Agency would find it unacceptable and require them to exclude it. By excluding it and proposing some wetland habitat instead they could sell this as something they had generously changed.
Which of these two do you think it is? You decide, but we think neither has a good look.
Solar panels downstream of the Aldington flood alleviation scheme - Really?
This photo was taken from the road bridge over the East Stour on Station Road. It was taken in 2017 after a period of heavy rain and in the background the flood water can be seen spilling over the bund and flooding the fields downstream between the bund and Station Road.
Incredibly, Evolution Power’s latest plans are to locate solar panels in the fields shown in the foreground of this photo, which does not seem very wise to us! Perhaps more importantly though, Evolution Power plan to build a major access haul road through these flooded fields. All the materials for the project such as solar panels, batteries, inverter stations, cables, ballast, and concrete for new roadways will be unloaded from HGVs into the off-loading yard on the left-hand side of Station Road, just past the railway. The materials will then be loaded onto smaller vehicles and transported along this new haul road (see map) which runs from the loading yard to a road crossing close to Calleywell Lane via temporary bridges over the East Stour River.
It beggars belief that this haul road is proposed in the flood plain across an area that is so susceptible to flooding.
Are these the actions of a competent developer?
Will the Environment Agency intervene to stop this?
Who will ultimately suffer if these fields remain in the scheme?
Lookout for the next in our Competency Corner series, When is a hill not a hill?
