One note to make, farmers/landowners who have gone down the route i don’t blame. Potentially life changing money for individuals. More the allowance from government for prime land to be used and/or the lack of viability to make money through production of food
Fellow farmer not far from yourself as the crow flies…..Objection put in after watching this video…..let’s hope the council make a sensible decision for once….
Your right the infrastructure should be put in so that all farmers and owners of large buildings and home owners can use their buildings for solar power and battery storage and export to the grid, benefiting real people not large companys
@@richardmatthews3304 this planned development won’t even be of benefit locally…. The energy will be taken away elsewhere and not used in the locality - so Perthshire doesn’t benefit from anything with this solar site at all!
Totally agree Solar Panel Farms on prime agricultural land is disgusting but the problem is farmers are not getting paid enough for crops they grow and risks they take NO FARMERS. NO FOOD NO FUTURE
Agreed !! And example is dartmoor. Miserable land that's not a lot of good for anything but if you tried to put solar panels there would be outrage from the tree huggers. Yet when it decent land that feeds us it's silent !! It's the same exact thing with houses. But I'm afraid we have some really dim people around now that are brainwashed by the stupid
I have done as you requested and objected on behalf of myself and hubby who farms near the Wash in Lincolnshire England. Also shared video on my FB & X
The farm I work on is turning into a solar farm (about 400 acres south east Scotland) and then another one just down the road. The farmer wanted just one or two fields that has shallow soil and have never been good that happen to be south facing to go into them. That would be ideal for land use if every farmer could do that if they wished but the infrastructure isn’t there for it hence why the whole farm has to go. The worst part is it’s all the flat ground which is being taken and all the steep rough grazing isn’t “suitable” for solar. Acknowledge it’s a waste of productive land but I can see why the farmer will take the money on these tougher few years. The plan however is to graze the sheep amongst them which theoretically might be good as panels act as shelter but will see how that pans out!
Its an equity release scheme that the farmer will see little of. Its his equity and sur(ety)name that will be used for bond writing. The bonds will be his property. The fly by night Limited Liability companies involved have no credit or credit rating. They exist on a piece of paper whereas the farmer and land are real.
I agree with you. Every roof could have solar panels and eliminate the need for a “solar farm”! The solar companies should contract to use people’s roofs and maintain the panels. That way individuals do not have to worry about installation, maintenance and repairs. They Solar companies just have to do the work snd stop taking the easy route of destroying farm land.
👏👏 Well said Crawford. Same issue here in Ireland. I agree totally. It's happening around me too. Planning approved for a massive area of land. Incompasses many farms and small holdings. I'll be a green island amongst a solar panel sea!! Rooves and marginal derelict land is where they should be. Keep battling. But it's a hard road. Solar companies have gained alot of ears and power. Well said again Crawford. 👏
Hi Crawford, completely agree however coming from a farming background but working in the renewables industry it is interesting to hear this as I get it from both sides. The issues lie with planning and policy. The derelict ground which you refer to is likely derelict for a reason and as such probably doesn’t sit as favourably in planning terms. There are numerous issues facing the agricultural sector as you will be more than aware, however for many solar is seen as a successful diversification with guaranteed income. Really interesting topic and whilst I completely agree with the points you make I also feel sorry for the landowner who is clearly looking to maximise income during difficult times yet still being faced with resistance.
Sadly it is the same all over Europe, in my local area here in Denmark they are doing the same. We had a meeting where a farmer like you asked the same questions - he was ignored, as the politicians had made up their mind.
The sheer insanity of using agricultural land is beyond belief. There's literally millions of square metres of supermarket, factory & office roofs where these panels could be placed.
fully agree with you Crawford you should look at what's planed for the land round here 3250 acres from Eaglesfield to Gretna called the wyseby hill soler farm . and its all good ground . its just seem criminal😞😞
I agree, the cost to upgrade the National Grid network makes farm field solar panels more expensive too. A better solution would be to follow some of our European neighbours. They use scrub at the side of motorways, there are also all the business and trade parks, supermarkets, car parks, warehouses and many brown field sites where panels could be installed and provide space for the huge battery banks to back up the system. Better to give grants to farming, or form cooperatives for farmers to install digestion systems where methane gas can be produced and also produce power.
They erected a solar farm near me, on the planning they said it would supply jobs for local people. The German made panels shipped to the UK by Polish drivers and erected by a Spanish team needed one local man to give directions.
"German made" I'm sure they were.. definitely not made in god forsaken conditions in China and packaged in Germany 🤣🤣 I guess it's jobs for someone, just not us
The company, Namene, confirmed there would be absolutely no benefit to our local community or economy - no employment except, laughingly, grass cutting.
Another excellent video Crawford, glad to help please keep fighting to protect all agricultural land it is vital we support our farmers today & in the future 👍👍
Done and completely agree but may I say that if farmers were paid a descent price for their crop, maybe we wouldn’t think about skims like this. Also every new build développement, speculative warehousing build should have solar panels has a prerequisite to their approval!
There is more than plenty south facing poor hill land only grazing a few hill sheep which is where solar farms should be ,and they can still graze amount the panels after construction ,if that's the route government wants us to go ,not prime land ,we already lose many tens of thousands of acres of good arable land every year to housing in the uk ,infrastructure and industrial parks apart from solar multiply this by 20 to 50 years and we will be rapidly running out of food
Here in NZ similar happening with solar farms but we also have good farming land going in to pine trees for carbon credits, problem is now an abbattoir/ freezing works is having to close through lack of livestock which effects jobs. Also schools and shops are having to close in villages where there is not enough families around because farms being bought for the trees. Whole communities changing very sad to see.
You were not kidding on the website being hardwork. If anyone else registers then gets a permission denied message go back to the link on here and go back to it and it seems to work.
No no no - Farmers get income to survive from this - the lease gives guaranteed income... It is the difference between getting by and fighting for survival. It is a brilliant thing to give over 10 acres for guaranteed income and you can still graze sheep on it. Diversification is survival.
@@mwnciboo But the scale of it is out of proportion - one solar farm near me is 190HA and that is a lot of land taken out of food production (or of limited agricultural use). I wouldn't object if there were small solar installations on farmland of poor quality but it is far easier for the big companies to use large areas at once to hook up to the grid and maximise their profits before selling off their assets to someone else - it is just a short-term investment for them and they don't really care about the impacts on communities, nature, food production or change of land use over very long periods.
Well said Crawford. This is so important to our local community. I know a particular farmer, now no longer with us, who farmed Tatties there, and he definitely would have objected if he were still here.
Hey buddy, remember me? There's due to be 3,000 acres of solar being built near me. It's so near me it starts on the opposite side of the road. It's a nightmare, completely echo what you said. We weren't really able to give objections to ours because it was busy through under some "national importance" infrastructure type thing. The village didn't even really know about it until they started archeological digs... Fun times. Hope you're well pal
I requested under an FOI to the Scottish administration for the total farming/greenbelt acreage lost to housing developments. They don’t hold that information.
In agreement with you... If it's prone to flooding, why not brown rice crops? In Ontario 396 acres of agricultural land is sold for investment housing and development per day, yet we have little affordable housing now. Eventually we will be needing food's and feeds from other provinces and imports more than ever. Recipe for disaster.
Panel farms are equity release schemes from the land. For the purpose of writing bonds to gain free money. The farmers signature is essential for this. Also his all caps sur(ety)name. He might make a few quid on the deal. The inefficient panels under a grey sky are for show. Ask any off grid user how efficient they are. Its no different to the Treasury bond/gilts written by .gov against the land of GB for 'borrowing' which they do in vast quantity.
• Brownfield Sites and Less Productive Land: Solar panel installations should prioritize the use of brownfield sites, degraded land, or land that is not suitable for agricultural use. Scotland has a wealth of land that could host solar farms without impacting prime farmland. Utilizing less fertile land for renewable energy projects would balance the need for renewable energy development with the necessity of preserving valuable agricultural land. • Dual-Use Agriculture-Solar Models: Where renewable energy projects are necessary on agricultural land, dual-use models like agrivoltaics should be considered. This allows solar panels to coexist with agricultural activities (e.g., grazing livestock beneath solar panels or growing certain crops) to ensure land productivity is maintained.
This unfortunately is Perthshire wide. 250 acres at Couper Angus plus another 100 acres at Campmuir at planning for solar panels. Perthshire will be covered in them
And where's the energy going????? Most of what's produced already is more than enough for Scotland several times over nearly - so it's just going to be exported - and better we export whiskey to boost up the public purse than energy to boost up energy company profits! LOL yeah - I'm all for renewables and the benefit of them includes planning where they go rather than where they are (like oil and coal - you're kind of stuck!) - so taking away one source of income to provide another that doesn't pay back to the purse - really is the most silly consideration possible! Put it on buildings - bring people out of energy poverty - and stop ruining the landscape and good land ....! Some Councils really don't have any braincells between their councillors!
Hi Crawford, Objection submitted, on the basis of loss of prime farm land impact on wildlife, loss of employment with no apparent alternative and the impact on the natural beauty of the area. I drive past on a regular basis, and the last thing I want to see are rows upon rows of solar panels scarring the landscape. Don,t let the Bandits get away with it, register sign in and raise an objection, I did and it was easy.🙂 Keep solar panels on roofs, Keep Perthshire Beautiful.
I work on new build sites doing the groundworks Taylor wimpey houses. Near enough every house has between 5 and 10 solar panels. I dont understand why the government doesn’t make it law or at least make it part of new owner agreements to give one solar panel per house to the national grid. One solar panel isn’t a lot, but when you have 1000 houses giving you one each then it begins to mount up and therefor lowering the need for these solar farms and saving farmland in the process.
I really can't do much from Australia but I'll but as much scotch whisky as I can if that helps???!! Good luck guys. It's discussing listing prime land for this. Infrastructure already about can do the job or shit ground as you say.
A couple of things… You’ll have some contacts with BBC’s Countryfile - I think an item on broadcast telly highlighting the problem would reach a wider audience Do you have any idea who owns the land and why they’re doing this? Has the land been taken-over by some corporate entity that isn’t interested in farming or a farmer retiring and looking to boost his pension as the Solar Power company will pay more for the land than someone looking to get into the farming game? Very likely there’s a deeper, possibly disturbing, story behind this proposed development that I’d be very interested in hearing about
I have never responded to anything on RUclips but I have put an objection in on the planning app to try and stop this blot on the beautiful landscape. As you say so passionately is build solar on existing buildings or brown field land.
Tell the council you'll hold them personally responsible. That far north with limited sunlight is ridiculous and winter time is when most energy is needed and you have less sunlight makes it nonsense. Here in Kent our council have just approved and paid for a solar farm in Somerset! How the hell? I only fiume out this morning.
I agree with everything you say Crawford it shouldn't be allowed taking good add record for land out of production. Nobody's looking to the Future when will all be starving.
I submitted my objection Crawford. Them solar panels do not belong on land like that. They should either find derelict sites to build on that are not prime agricultural land or stick to roofs of houses and businesses. This planning is 110% a no no from me like many others. Hope you get the result we are all hoping for.
Is the farm in question being voluntarily sold to be converted to solar by the farmers themselves or are they being forced into solar by sometning like eminent domain? Either way, I agree that it's dangerous to a nation to set a precident of taking prime agricultural land out of production for such uses if other viable options exist. Also, the incereased risk of flooding for the surrounding area does need to be considered. Still, please let me know whether the conversion to solar for this particular farm is voluntary of forced. This will help me register an objection more accurately if I can get on the site. Thank you.
The plan is to reduce farming, this is happening abroad too. The plan is that you eat plant based alternatives if you don’t they will make you. Unless we stop it.
We had a substation go ahead on our old farmland in 2019. This consumed 100 acres of prime agricultural ground. The eyesore now employs 3 people!!! Also my electricity bill only increases every 6 months.!!! My objection is filed.
It is up to the landowner as to what they want to do with their ground. If someone owns say 40-80 acres and other farms have got bigger that they have driven down the profit margin to make a small holding unviable is it wrong that someone would want to diversify? Plenty of Farmers run bio digesters etc, the only difference is that there is maize in the field instead of solar panels, the output is the same...
I basically agree, just don’t think that should have been made a viable option for prime land to end up as. Either it needs to be more lucrative to run as a food producing farm or solar on prime land should be stopped by government. If the owner wants to go down the route thats completely fair.
Not when it's an eyesore and a farce. If government can do one thing right surely it's to retain beauty. And not line others pockets with taxpayer money at a net loss. The only reason these things are viable are because of subsidies from the taxpayer. If they were economically viable everyone would be installing at their own expense.
Maith thú a Crawford! (Fair play to you Crawford in Irish) Same BS is going on in Ireland. 21% of electric energy is used by data centres in Ireland. Fact not made up. I'm from farming background and now an urban dweller and fully agree with your stance. Flashy suits in well paid office jobs making rural decisions as ever. People do not see the significance of a solar farm on food importation. Pay cheap, eat cheap. I hope some of our social media farmers over here take the same stance. Like another poster, get Clarkson on board. He'll rise the tide around your politician's spindly legs. Best of luck and again fair play. 💪🏻
Anyone read about the potential for chemicals/materials in the solar installations leaching into the soil. Presents a long term risk to soil health potentially. I don't get why they don't offer to put them on people's roofs.
Why’d they not stick them in the ocean on some stilts, this seems like an absolute pisstake. Il be putting my name down for you, and for the future of farming in Scotland 🏴🤞👊🏼✅
Cammy Wilson just interviewed Jim Fairlie MSP on his Fed by Farmers podcast. Don't be shy about networking with Cammy and getting contact information for Jim. The solar "farm" is a terrible idea for prime agricultural land! I do not have a connection with farming besides knowing in my heart that the world needs to get back to supporting their local farmers, by purchasing the food they eat as locally as possible. Eating locally and seasonally isn't promoted in our world today. Maybe we wouldn't need solar farms if we weren't shipping tropical fruit thousands of miles because we've been conditioned to think we must have oranges or grapes or avocados during the winter. Only places that can't grow/produce their own food should be importing food. I will try to register a protest, even though I live in the US.
As a fellow Scottish farmer I think we should be able to use our land for whatever land use we see fit. I guess Crawford doesn’t have a nice south facing hill because nobody in right frame of mind would turn down that kind of money.
I basically agree, just don’t think that should have been made a viable option for prime land to end up as. Either it needs to be more lucrative to run as a food producing farm or solar on prime land should be stopped by government. If the owner wants to go down the route thats completely fair.
One note to make, farmers/landowners who have gone down the route i don’t blame. Potentially life changing money for individuals. More the allowance from government for prime land to be used and/or the lack of viability to make money through production of food
Fellow farmer not far from yourself as the crow flies…..Objection put in after watching this video…..let’s hope the council make a sensible decision for once….
Your right the infrastructure should be put in so that all farmers and owners of large buildings and home owners can use their buildings for solar power and battery storage and export to the grid, benefiting real people not large companys
@@richardmatthews3304 this planned development won’t even be of benefit locally…. The energy will be taken away elsewhere and not used in the locality - so Perthshire doesn’t benefit from anything with this solar site at all!
Defo don't blame the farmers. This is an issue the government have caused after years of underfunding, and not valuing what the farmers do.
Totally agree Solar Panel Farms on prime agricultural land is disgusting but the problem is farmers are not getting paid enough for crops they grow and risks they take NO FARMERS. NO FOOD NO FUTURE
There are far better places for these solar farms but prime agricultural land is not the place for it 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Agreed !! And example is dartmoor. Miserable land that's not a lot of good for anything but if you tried to put solar panels there would be outrage from the tree huggers. Yet when it decent land that feeds us it's silent !! It's the same exact thing with houses. But I'm afraid we have some really dim people around now that are brainwashed by the stupid
Solar panels should be mandatory on roofs of all commercial buildings. Accelerated captital wrie offs to help fund it
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Mumbo jumbo. Government needs to stay out. Anyone who still thinks government intervention is the answer at this point is an idiot.
I have done as you requested and objected on behalf of myself and hubby who farms near the Wash in Lincolnshire England. Also shared video on my FB &
X
Thank you
It's wrong taking that land to put solar power there, I 100% agree with you Crawford
The farm I work on is turning into a solar farm (about 400 acres south east Scotland) and then another one just down the road. The farmer wanted just one or two fields that has shallow soil and have never been good that happen to be south facing to go into them. That would be ideal for land use if every farmer could do that if they wished but the infrastructure isn’t there for it hence why the whole farm has to go. The worst part is it’s all the flat ground which is being taken and all the steep rough grazing isn’t “suitable” for solar. Acknowledge it’s a waste of productive land but I can see why the farmer will take the money on these tougher few years. The plan however is to graze the sheep amongst them which theoretically might be good as panels act as shelter but will see how that pans out!
Its an equity release scheme that the farmer will see little of. Its his equity and sur(ety)name that will be used for bond writing. The bonds will be his property. The fly by night Limited Liability companies involved have no credit or credit rating. They exist on a piece of paper whereas the farmer and land are real.
100% agree with you Crawford... objected on the grounds you outline - totally inappropriate use of the land.
Thank you
Submitted objection Crawford. Thanks for highlighting this issue
Farms are for producing food not power........
I agree with you. Every roof could have solar panels and eliminate the need for a “solar farm”! The solar companies should contract to use people’s roofs and maintain the panels. That way individuals do not have to worry about installation, maintenance and repairs. They Solar companies just have to do the work snd stop taking the easy route of destroying farm land.
Objected. Strongly.
👏👏 Well said Crawford. Same issue here in Ireland. I agree totally. It's happening around me too. Planning approved for a massive area of land. Incompasses many farms and small holdings. I'll be a green island amongst a solar panel sea!! Rooves and marginal derelict land is where they should be. Keep battling. But it's a hard road. Solar companies have gained alot of ears and power. Well said again Crawford. 👏
They shouldn't be anywhere unless by personal choice.
Hi Crawford, completely agree however coming from a farming background but working in the renewables industry it is interesting to hear this as I get it from both sides. The issues lie with planning and policy. The derelict ground which you refer to is likely derelict for a reason and as such probably doesn’t sit as favourably in planning terms. There are numerous issues facing the agricultural sector as you will be more than aware, however for many solar is seen as a successful diversification with guaranteed income. Really interesting topic and whilst I completely agree with the points you make I also feel sorry for the landowner who is clearly looking to maximise income during difficult times yet still being faced with resistance.
Very well said
Sadly it is the same all over Europe, in my local area here in Denmark they are doing the same. We had a meeting where a farmer like you asked the same questions - he was ignored, as the politicians had made up their mind.
Completely agree with all you say!
The sheer insanity of using agricultural land is beyond belief.
There's literally millions of square metres of supermarket, factory & office roofs where these panels could be placed.
Every farm shed and stedding should be covered with solar
@@caterthun4853 why aren't they then? If it was a wise decision farmers would have already done it.
Done. Fingers crossed enough people object and stop this happening.
The first clearances were for sheep.
That is out of order. That should be used for agriculture purposes. Solar panels on roofs
Well done for usng your great channel to try and make a difference . I have registered my objection.
Thank you
Will get on this later today
Thank you
@@CrawfordsFarm1 Done!
Just done mine its not that hard so everyone need to try as this is not acceptable..... all the best 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
fully agree with you Crawford you should look at what's planed for the land round here 3250 acres from Eaglesfield to Gretna called the wyseby hill soler farm . and its all good ground . its just seem criminal😞😞
I agree, the cost to upgrade the National Grid network makes farm field solar panels more expensive too. A better solution would be to follow some of our European neighbours. They use scrub at the side of motorways, there are also all the business and trade parks, supermarkets, car parks, warehouses and many brown field sites where panels could be installed and provide space for the huge battery banks to back up the system. Better to give grants to farming, or form cooperatives for farmers to install digestion systems where methane gas can be produced and also produce power.
They erected a solar farm near me, on the planning they said it would supply jobs for local people. The German made panels shipped to the UK by Polish drivers and erected by a Spanish team needed one local man to give directions.
"German made" I'm sure they were.. definitely not made in god forsaken conditions in China and packaged in Germany 🤣🤣 I guess it's jobs for someone, just not us
The company, Namene, confirmed there would be absolutely no benefit to our local community or economy - no employment except, laughingly, grass cutting.
Will check it out. I agree with what you’re saying there is loads of waste land that is not farm land they should use that.
Thank you
Another excellent video Crawford, glad to help please keep fighting to protect all agricultural land it is vital we support our farmers today & in the future 👍👍
Done and completely agree but may I say that if farmers were paid a descent price for their crop, maybe we wouldn’t think about skims like this. Also every new build développement, speculative warehousing build should have solar panels has a prerequisite to their approval!
I support this. Don’t object for anything other than genuine planning reasons.
Totally agree Crawford, far too much good agricultural land being put into trees or in this case solar panels! As you say plenty other places for them
Was raised from a strong line of farmers.
I support you and this video!
Its our livelihoods and and lot of other peoples.
We don't need imports.
Happening around us. With you on this.
Shared for us all.
It amazes me how these enormous Amazon buildings and the like don’t have a single solar panel on them, not even a couple for the offices!!!
Totally agree with totally soler should not be put on good land and should be put on buildings and factory's . Keep up the good work 👏
There is more than plenty south facing poor hill land only grazing a few hill sheep which is where solar farms should be ,and they can still graze amount the panels after construction ,if that's the route government wants us to go ,not prime land ,we already lose many tens of thousands of acres of good arable land every year to housing in the uk ,infrastructure and industrial parks apart from solar multiply this by 20 to 50 years and we will be rapidly running out of food
I hope you get your signatures! Go well from Australia (I’d buy the farm if it was affordable, just to stop them putting a solar farm in)
Glad to see my concept art getting some air time. 🙏
Hopefully it will never happen 🤞
Here in NZ similar happening with solar farms but we also have good farming land going in to pine trees for carbon credits, problem is now an abbattoir/ freezing works is having to close through lack of livestock which effects jobs. Also schools and shops are having to close in villages where there is not enough families around because farms being bought for the trees. Whole communities changing very sad to see.
You were not kidding on the website being hardwork. If anyone else registers then gets a permission denied message go back to the link on here and go back to it and it seems to work.
Yeah iv been having the same problem!!
Objection raised 👍🏻
Thank you
First let all get together
Solar farms should be on city building roof tops.
No no no - Farmers get income to survive from this - the lease gives guaranteed income... It is the difference between getting by and fighting for survival. It is a brilliant thing to give over 10 acres for guaranteed income and you can still graze sheep on it. Diversification is survival.
@@mwnciboo But the scale of it is out of proportion - one solar farm near me is 190HA and that is a lot of land taken out of food production (or of limited agricultural use). I wouldn't object if there were small solar installations on farmland of poor quality but it is far easier for the big companies to use large areas at once to hook up to the grid and maximise their profits before selling off their assets to someone else - it is just a short-term investment for them and they don't really care about the impacts on communities, nature, food production or change of land use over very long periods.
@@mwnciboo 🤡
Well said Crawford. This is so important to our local community. I know a particular farmer, now no longer with us, who farmed Tatties there, and he definitely would have objected if he were still here.
Hey buddy, remember me? There's due to be 3,000 acres of solar being built near me. It's so near me it starts on the opposite side of the road. It's a nightmare, completely echo what you said. We weren't really able to give objections to ours because it was busy through under some "national importance" infrastructure type thing. The village didn't even really know about it until they started archeological digs... Fun times. Hope you're well pal
Picture gives it away! Its just going to be a tragic mess in 20 years… no one looks forward much do they
Im well hope you are too 🫡
I requested under an FOI to the Scottish administration for the total farming/greenbelt acreage lost to housing developments. They don’t hold that information.
In agreement with you...
If it's prone to flooding, why not brown rice crops?
In Ontario 396 acres of agricultural land is sold for investment housing and development per day, yet we have little affordable housing now.
Eventually we will be needing food's and feeds from other provinces and imports more than ever. Recipe for disaster.
Panel farms are equity release schemes from the land. For the purpose of writing bonds to gain free money. The farmers signature is essential for this. Also his all caps sur(ety)name. He might make a few quid on the deal. The inefficient panels under a grey sky are for show. Ask any off grid user how efficient they are. Its no different to the Treasury bond/gilts written by .gov against the land of GB for 'borrowing' which they do in vast quantity.
Good on you Crawford these things need to stop so we can keep our ground for crops instead of the cheap shit from abroad
• Brownfield Sites and Less Productive Land: Solar panel installations should prioritize the use of brownfield sites, degraded land, or land that is not suitable for agricultural use. Scotland has a wealth of land that could host solar farms without impacting prime farmland. Utilizing less fertile land for renewable energy projects would balance the need for renewable energy development with the necessity of preserving valuable agricultural land.
• Dual-Use Agriculture-Solar Models: Where renewable energy projects are necessary on agricultural land, dual-use models like agrivoltaics should be considered. This allows solar panels to coexist with agricultural activities (e.g., grazing livestock beneath solar panels or growing certain crops) to ensure land productivity is maintained.
Agree that should be on grouse moors. But, we need to also stop growing OSR for biofuels on land for food growing
You have a point 👍🏼
It shouldn't be on moors FFS
Agree with you 100%. Just done that for you.
This unfortunately is Perthshire wide. 250 acres at Couper Angus plus another 100 acres at Campmuir at planning for solar panels. Perthshire will be covered in them
And where's the energy going????? Most of what's produced already is more than enough for Scotland several times over nearly - so it's just going to be exported - and better we export whiskey to boost up the public purse than energy to boost up energy company profits!
LOL yeah - I'm all for renewables and the benefit of them includes planning where they go rather than where they are (like oil and coal - you're kind of stuck!) - so taking away one source of income to provide another that doesn't pay back to the purse - really is the most silly consideration possible!
Put it on buildings - bring people out of energy poverty - and stop ruining the landscape and good land ....!
Some Councils really don't have any braincells between their councillors!
Done.... Now surely Gate Lady needs to be on camera.. 🤔🙂
Thank you
It's so wrong I hope you do well in forcing this situation forward
Im afraid crawford same ting happening here in Ireland between windturbines and solar panels
I will do it for you
Hi Crawford, Objection submitted, on the basis of loss of prime farm land impact on wildlife, loss of employment with no apparent alternative and the impact on the natural beauty of the area. I drive past on a regular basis, and the last thing I want to see are rows upon rows of solar panels scarring the landscape.
Don,t let the Bandits get away with it, register sign in and raise an objection, I did and it was easy.🙂
Keep solar panels on roofs, Keep Perthshire Beautiful.
I work on new build sites doing the groundworks Taylor wimpey houses. Near enough every house has between 5 and 10 solar panels. I dont understand why the government doesn’t make it law or at least make it part of new owner agreements to give one solar panel per house to the national grid. One solar panel isn’t a lot, but when you have 1000 houses giving you one each then it begins to mount up and therefor lowering the need for these solar farms and saving farmland in the process.
Government isn't the answer. You're befuddling yourself thinking it is.
I really can't do much from Australia but I'll but as much scotch whisky as I can if that helps???!! Good luck guys. It's discussing listing prime land for this. Infrastructure already about can do the job or shit ground as you say.
You can email the planning office and remind them that tourists like the landscape ;)
Alot of the same thing is happening in spots here in Canada where the land is prime farmland
A couple of things…
You’ll have some contacts with BBC’s Countryfile - I think an item on broadcast telly highlighting the problem would reach a wider audience
Do you have any idea who owns the land and why they’re doing this? Has the land been taken-over by some corporate entity that isn’t interested in farming or a farmer retiring and looking to boost his pension as the Solar Power company will pay more for the land than someone looking to get into the farming game? Very likely there’s a deeper, possibly disturbing, story behind this proposed development that I’d be very interested in hearing about
You think Countryfile is anything but a propaganda and social engineering platform that wont side with government policy 🤣
I have never responded to anything on RUclips but I have put an objection in on the planning app to try and stop this blot on the beautiful landscape. As you say so passionately is build solar on existing buildings or brown field land.
Thank you 👍🏼
Tell the council you'll hold them personally responsible.
That far north with limited sunlight is ridiculous and winter time is when most energy is needed and you have less sunlight makes it nonsense.
Here in Kent our council have just approved and paid for a solar farm in Somerset! How the hell? I only fiume out this morning.
I agree with everything you say Crawford it shouldn't be allowed taking good add record for land out of production. Nobody's looking to the Future when will all be starving.
Done
Thank you very much
I submitted my objection Crawford. Them solar panels do not belong on land like that. They should either find derelict sites to build on that are not prime agricultural land or stick to roofs of houses and businesses. This planning is 110% a no no from me like many others. Hope you get the result we are all hoping for.
Thank you
My mum and dad live next to the farm shop, everyone in the area is gutted.
Is the farm in question being voluntarily sold to be converted to solar by the farmers themselves or are they being forced into solar by sometning like eminent domain? Either way, I agree that it's dangerous to a nation to set a precident of taking prime agricultural land out of production for such uses if other viable options exist. Also, the incereased risk of flooding for the surrounding area does need to be considered. Still, please let me know whether the conversion to solar for this particular farm is voluntary of forced. This will help me register an objection more accurately if I can get on the site. Thank you.
I'll lodge an objection later today Crawford.
Thank you Alastair
Done.
Great ...fella
The plan is to reduce farming, this is happening abroad too. The plan is that you eat plant based alternatives if you don’t they will make you. Unless we stop it.
We had a substation go ahead on our old farmland in 2019. This consumed 100 acres of prime agricultural ground. The eyesore now employs 3 people!!! Also my electricity bill only increases every 6 months.!!! My objection is filed.
We have 78 acre's of prime agricultural land beside our wee farm covered with solar panels bloody eye sore ☹️
The government is the problem they think Scotland is just rough hills they don't realise it's some of the best land in the country.
My objection has been summited sadly this madness is country wide and new U.K. government is going to make it worse.
Thank you
Done, cover car parks and warehouses. Not fields
It is up to the landowner as to what they want to do with their ground. If someone owns say 40-80 acres and other farms have got bigger that they have driven down the profit margin to make a small holding unviable is it wrong that someone would want to diversify? Plenty of Farmers run bio digesters etc, the only difference is that there is maize in the field instead of solar panels, the output is the same...
I basically agree, just don’t think that should have been made a viable option for prime land to end up as. Either it needs to be more lucrative to run as a food producing farm or solar on prime land should be stopped by government. If the owner wants to go down the route thats completely fair.
Not when it's an eyesore and a farce. If government can do one thing right surely it's to retain beauty. And not line others pockets with taxpayer money at a net loss. The only reason these things are viable are because of subsidies from the taxpayer. If they were economically viable everyone would be installing at their own expense.
Sorry now I’d love to help but I’m in ROI. Best of luck you’re successful in preventing it happen.
Object Crawford. I don't think governments realise what they are doing these days nor the impact on food producers.
Maith thú a Crawford! (Fair play to you Crawford in Irish)
Same BS is going on in Ireland.
21% of electric energy is used by data centres in Ireland. Fact not made up.
I'm from farming background and now an urban dweller and fully agree with your stance.
Flashy suits in well paid office jobs making rural decisions as ever.
People do not see the significance of a solar farm on food importation. Pay cheap, eat cheap.
I hope some of our social media farmers over here take the same stance.
Like another poster, get Clarkson on board. He'll rise the tide around your politician's spindly legs.
Best of luck and again fair play.
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I don't have a problem with but! The universal cry of the NIMBY. How many solar panels do you have on all of your roof space?
Well said they are doing this in Ireland to this is a disgrace. 👍
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Anyone read about the potential for chemicals/materials in the solar installations leaching into the soil. Presents a long term risk to soil health potentially.
I don't get why they don't offer to put them on people's roofs.
Why’d they not stick them in the ocean on some stilts, this seems like an absolute pisstake. Il be putting my name down for you, and for the future of farming in Scotland 🏴🤞👊🏼✅
objection submitted
Another method of food control!
Cammy Wilson just interviewed Jim Fairlie MSP on his Fed by Farmers podcast. Don't be shy about networking with Cammy and getting contact information for Jim. The solar "farm" is a terrible idea for prime agricultural land! I do not have a connection with farming besides knowing in my heart that the world needs to get back to supporting their local farmers, by purchasing the food they eat as locally as possible. Eating locally and seasonally isn't promoted in our world today. Maybe we wouldn't need solar farms if we weren't shipping tropical fruit thousands of miles because we've been conditioned to think we must have oranges or grapes or avocados during the winter. Only places that can't grow/produce their own food should be importing food. I will try to register a protest, even though I live in the US.
done it as a perthshire resident former farm worker
Thank you
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objection submitted,
Solar panels in Starmers Mansion grounds. Also provide rooms I his mansion for migrants
Objection submitted 👍🏻
We have enough factory roofs and brown sites for solar
Leave good land for real farming
As a fellow Scottish farmer I think we should be able to use our land for whatever land use we see fit. I guess Crawford doesn’t have a nice south facing hill because nobody in right frame of mind would turn down that kind of money.
I basically agree, just don’t think that should have been made a viable option for prime land to end up as. Either it needs to be more lucrative to run as a food producing farm or solar on prime land should be stopped by government. If the owner wants to go down the route thats completely fair.
Sure, I'll build skyscraper apartment blocks on mine. Idiot.