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1. Burger Bar & Grill
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2. Eagle French Cafe
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3. L’ardoise Bistro
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4. Anchor Seafood Market
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It would not be unreasonable to expect a competent solar developer to consider the topography of the land they are planning to build on, in order that they minimise visual impact.
Ashford Borough Council’s decision to refuse EDF’s 250-acre solar scheme application, located either side of Church Lane, was principally on account of a large part of it being located ON A HILL. That hill is Bested Hill, well known to those living in the parish and those that walk along the Aldington Ridge footpaths. They stood to have their views towards the North Downs dramatically disfigured as is clearly shown in EDF’s own photomontage assessment below:
Curiously, we know from conversations with Evolution Power that they “can’t understand why EDF have proposed a scheme on a hill”.
Based on this statement one wonders why much of the proposed Stonestreet Green development is located on the land at Bank Farm – which is on a hill. If one were in any doubt about the height of the hill, the Bank Farm website used to proudly announce, that "on a clear day it is possible to see France".
The solar panels visible in the above EDF photomontage are at an elevation of between 60m and 70m above sea level. At this sort of elevation these schemes have “significant adverse effects on landscape character and on visual amenity that are not, and cannot, be appropriately mitigated.” (Ashford Borough Council’s planning officer).
Evolution Power’s scheme proposes panels either side of Bank Road (a Roman Road) and on land east of Goldwell Lane. Many of these panels will be located between the 60m and 70m contours – the same elevation as EDF’s on Bested Hill.
Arguably, being on Aldington Ridge, they would be even more visible in the landscape than those proposed (and now refused) on Bested Hill.
In the Government’s Research Briefing last month “Planning for Solar Farms” it refers to its own Guidance on Renewable and Low Carbon Energy (last updated in August 2023). This states that “although large-scale solar farms can have “a negative impact” on rural landscapes, their visual impact can usually be “properly addressed within the landscape”, for example, “with effective screening and appropriate land topography”.
Strange that Evolution Power criticises a neighbouring solar scheme applicant for proposing panels on a hill while at the same time including a large part of its own solar scheme ON A HILL. It is evident that Evolution Power do not understand the topography of the land on which they propose to build their enormous Solar Generating station and that it will not be possible to mitigate the visual impact it will cause.
Are these the actions of a competent developer?
Look out for the next in our Competency Corner series, Only one field away.
