[Tubby Isaacs]

What case? The pylons aren't going to destroy the community, businesses, or the area.

You forgot nature. There's no nature near pylons, or something.

[Oboogie]

The only people who will suffer any hardship at all are home owners whose property might be devalued by the loss of a desirable view.

[Youngian]

Ironically the bases of pylons crossing arable fields are mini oasis of rewilding because they're not ploughed.

[The Weeping Angel]

What case? The pylons aren't going to destroy the community, businesses, or the area.

You forgot nature. There's no nature near pylons, or something.

Also what is claimed about solar farms as well.

https://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/ne ... t-practice

New research from Suffolk Wildlife Trust, Cubico, and Broxted Estate provides fresh evidence of the role that well-designed and responsibly managed solar farms can play as powerful catalysts for nature recovery, while generating clean electricity for communities.

The findings, published in a new report, draw on more than a decade of ecological monitoring and active management at Broxted Estate and Solar Farm. Broxted is owned by the Ryder family (through their partnership, Navigator Land LLP) and the solar farm is operated by renewable energy company Cubico[1].

Planning for the solar farm began in 2011 and the site began generating electricity in December 2013. At the time, it was the second largest solar farm in the UK. From the outset, the solar farm has been developed and managed as part of the wider estate, with great emphasis on the landscape including habitat restoration in surrounding land parcels delivering significant ecological and biodiversity uplifts.

Planning for the solar farm began in 2011 and the site began generating electricity in December 2013. At the time, it was the second largest solar farm in the UK. From the outset, the solar farm has been developed and managed as part of the wider estate, with great emphasis on the landscape including habitat restoration in surrounding land parcels delivering significant ecological and biodiversity uplifts.

Ongoing ecological monitoring of the site by Suffolk Wildlife Trust – in collaboration with Charles Ryder and Cubico – has helped build an important case study for how future renewable energy development could contribute to the energy, biodiversity, and climate crises in tandem.

[AOB]

Villagers vote on independence over asylum plans

Voters in a small village headed to the polls for an independence vote over government plans to house asylum seekers at a nearby former Ministry of Defence (MoD) site.

But speaking outside Piddington village hall on Tuesday, one villager said when it came to holding the vote: "We wouldn't do this lightly."

"I think when you see a village like this feeling that they need to hold a referendum it sends a really powerful message to the government that we're being ignored and disenfranchised," he told the BBC.

Google Translate tells me this says: "Send them all up North."

[Youngian]

We're in a witchhunt hysteria era.
The LD council are backing the locals
They're concerned for the refugees being housed in an inappropriate place, according to a councillor on the radio this morning. No answer as to what the LD refugee accommodation policy is.

[Abernathy]

A Facebook friend makes a very good point about the good people of Piddington :

A Piddington puzzle - if this site is a disused barracks, then presumably it will have housed a significant number of young ("fighting age") men in the past. Were there objections to this when it was being set up? Or did the village simply find that their fears did not materialise, and they coped just fine?

Somehow, I don't think there would have been a similar referendum stunt then. I wonder what it could be about young male asylum seekers that makes them such a particular cause for concern for Piddington folk ?

[Boiler]

It's apparently a former storage facility.

One thing that did stand out was that it would increase the population from 350 to 1600, which raises the question of how local infrastructure will cope?

According to the BBC, 312 votes were cast: 285 voted 'yes', 26 'no', one paper was spoiled.

[AOB]

BBC Breakfast led with that today. It is an utterly inconsequential story yet they decided to make it the main headline. The main piece of news that they decided the nation needed to hear before any other. What reason could it be other than to keep the pot of anti-immigrant sentiment simmering. It's almost as if Reform are in charge of BBC News these days. The likes of RNLI volunteers getting targeted online is indirectly a result of agenda setting by rancid, shit-stirring platforms like BBC News.

[RedSparrows]

The capture of attention by the right really is a marvel. If it wasn't so awful and so scary I'd admire it. The establishment they hate constantly bowing and scraping, and nobody, not one person, seemingly recalling the need for virtue.

[Boiler]

And some deny the Right has captured the narrative...