{"id":6113,"date":"2014-09-23T06:47:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T06:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6113"},"modified":"2014-09-23T06:58:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T06:58:11","slug":"nimbyism-is-taken-to-new-heights-in-wiltshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/09\/23\/nimbyism-is-taken-to-new-heights-in-wiltshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Nimbyism is taken to new heights in Wiltshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wiltshire has\u00a0an explorer \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coldclimates.co.uk\">David Hempleman-Adams<\/a> \u2013 who seems to do\u00a0most of his exploring out of the county.<\/p>\n<p>Hempleman-Adams\u00a0has made an intervention into the local solar PV politics\u00a0(ie, should Wiltshire\u00a0Council encourage or discourage it?). \u00a0The Council's policy is\u00a0not to have a coherent policy, and so applications get turned down just because loud and well-connected (in a non-electric sense) folk with nice views object. \u00a0Needless to say, planning appeals inspectors tend to take a dim view of all this.<\/p>\n<p>Hempleman-Adams has now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk\/news\/11482437.Explorer_voices_his_concern_over_growth_of_solar_farms_in_Wiltshire\/?ref=var_0\">written<\/a> to Wiltshire\u00a0Council objecting to the latest PV application on the grounds that solar farms spoil the view from his hot-air balloon. \u00a0The Wiltshire Times reports his saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<em>They frankly look appalling from the air, a large black blot on an otherwise green landscape, and the cumulative effect of so many in one area is very striking and detrimental, potentially damaging the very reason people chose to visit the area<\/em>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, in what is sure to be the killer argument, he says puts moral pressure on the Council with this cri de coeur ...<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"On a much smaller objection, I ride my horse, Mr Spot, past this very site and already have been nearly mowed down on several occasions. \u00a0Given that I have climbed Everest twice and reached both the North and South Poles and have lived to tell the tale, I think it would be very embarrassing for you if I get mowed down by an articulated lorry in my own back yard.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My sympathy is entirely with Mr Spot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wiltshire has\u00a0an explorer \u2013 David Hempleman-Adams \u2013 who seems to do\u00a0most of his exploring out of the county. Hempleman-Adams\u00a0has made an intervention into the local solar PV politics\u00a0(ie, should Wiltshire\u00a0Council encourage or discourage it?). \u00a0The Council's policy is\u00a0not to have...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}