Protect East Riding Countryside
Is this the right place for large scale industrial development?
Or is this a valuable public amenity for walking, cycling, running, riding?
And valuable productive farmland?
Skidby, Risby and Walkington are treasured by many: easily reached from the city and villages, and rich in scenic circular walks.
Not the place for a vast industrial park the size of Beverley.
Do you want to continue walking here?
Running, cycling, horse riding?
What a choice location for industrial development!
This proposal is gigantic and would involve 3 years of construction traffic, noise and dust. Risby would become the biggest industrial park in the area.
Wrong location and too big!
This proposal covers over 2800 acres – the size of a small town, and most of it could be covered with 4 metre tall solar panels – the height of a double decker bus.
Evicting tenant farmers, reducing food production. This is valuable high grade arable land.
This is West Hull’s favourite place to walk, run, cycle and ride. There are better locations for industrial developments.
“Clean Air” developers also propose 11 acres (about 7 football pitches) of lithium battery units aka BESS. Existing smaller solar battery sites are a proven fire risk and we don’t yet know how that risk multiplies with mega sized BESS sites like this.
BESS fires happen and they cause toxic smoke that burns for days. Water used to contain the fire contains toxic chemicals, with risk of catastrophically contaminating the underlying chalk aquifer which supplies drinking water to Hull and East Riding. Toxic runoff – from water used to contain a fire – also risks permanently poisoning the soil not only in the site but also downhill through other farms and into Skidby.
Clean Air currently refuse to divulge how many batteries they plan, where they will be, or what future local expansions this BESS might serve.
Proposals by “Clean Air” include a multi-acre converter station in Risby Park, ruining the views from Risby Round walks.
Renewable energy doesn’t need to obliterate prime farmland and popular walking routes. There are less destructive options but this one is only selected for speed and profit, which will not trickle down to our fuel bills.
Cumulative Impact
Estimates require 1% of UK land for renewable energy. But if these proposals go ahead,
19% of this rural area will be used by energy infrastructure. And more will be plugged in once this becomes the “go to” location for developers.
It is not NIBMYism to say:
Let’s spread the burden out – not 19% of one rural area
Let’s choose the least harmful locations – not across West Hull’s most popular and beautiful outdoor leisure area
East Riding has enough already, it’s time to stop.
