The council’s own conservation officer had concerns over the scheme. <\/p>\n
The fencing and work could have significantly altered the natural open landscape and setting of the heritage assets in the village, “creating a dominating and alien feature”, the LDRS reported. <\/p>\n
There would have also been a six-month construction period, with 14 heavy goods vehicles travelling along Bathley Road every day.<\/p>\n
While the applicant pledged to widen the road, it did not prove enough to sway councillors.<\/p>\n
Conservative councillor Sue Saddington, who represents the area, said: “We’ve heard the conservation officer has concerns, and the report states this development would cause harm.<\/p>\n
“So I may ask, why are we sitting here discussing such a ridiculous application in a rural area? <\/p>\n
“The impact on the heritage of the village, the environment, and the conservation, and listed buildings, will have a huge effect on the surrounding area.”<\/p>\n
The chair of the committee, Labour councillor Andy Freeman, added: “I am a great believer in renewable energy, but I say time and time and time again ‘not at any cost’. <\/p>\n
“For me this cost is too high.<\/p>\n
“The impact on the conservation and heritage assets for me, as your chairman, is just too hard to bear.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council’s own conservation officer had concerns over the scheme. The fencing and work could have significantly altered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-577832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}