Changes to objection date! - Now 3 January 2023

The application was added onto Ashford Borough Council (ABC)'s portal at the beginning of November and SOWLIS has carried out a review of the 86 documents, finding multiple errors which included duplication, missing documents and incorrectly named titles. In addition, the consultation date was missing and the planning officer doesn't seem to be named!

These problems made it incredibly difficult for anyone to understand, review the documents and comment on them and most importantly, the ability to make an informed comment by statutory consultees and ourselves in the parish!

SOWLIS therefore, wrote to ABC planning department asking for them to correct these errors and to delay the objection date:

SOWLIS letter to ABC re North Court Solar Farm OWL 10 Nov.pdf

Download PDF • 186KB

SOWLIS are hosting two meetings, the next at 10am on 20th November at Old Wives Village Hall in order to provide an update and information that will be relevant to those wishing to object.

ABC have now uploaded the correct documents and have restarted the Consultation progress again and the new date for getting objections in is the 3 January 2023.

In the meantime, if you fancy a read, we would really appreciate your comments on the two main documents:

• Environment Statement

• Planning, Design and Access Statement

Ideally, if you are able to comment on the downloaded PDF document that would be the most helpful. Do feel free to contact us if you need any help.

Also, just to reiterate, we really need more donations or to do some fund-raising activities to pay for expert advice and reports if we are going to persuade ABC planning committee that this is not a good idea to let an industrial solar 'installation' be built in the heart of our village in the Stour valley! If you have ideas, please get in touch!