I think rejection at planning is likely, but not foregone.
If Amazon do get it through, it will be down a lot to Hesseltine-era changes that let a wealthy business threaten to bankrupt local budgets with the cost of an appeal. I can't imagine Amazon not making that threat.
Wind turbines are great, but so is town planning. Imagine the UK with wind turbines plonked wherever people with money wanted to put them—it'd be Spindletop with fan blades.
No thanks. Plus, investing in lowering demand is better for the UK than building more supply (eg, home insulation).
Balance. If a sizeable number come out and protest against this, then that is something, but if the NIMBY association is just three or four people, as another person commenting has said, far more likely to be a small bunch of grumpy Reform UK followers. Balls to them basically.
I don't get it. Turbines are great, but any factory or distribution business asking to put up one big turbine right where it suits them won't impress locals.
And these things really can go somewhere else; it's not like the story with nuclear or coal power where finding sites is genuinely hard.
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If Amazon do get it through, it will be down a lot to Hesseltine-era changes that let a wealthy business threaten to bankrupt local budgets with the cost of an appeal. I can't imagine Amazon not making that threat.
No thanks. Plus, investing in lowering demand is better for the UK than building more supply (eg, home insulation).
And these things really can go somewhere else; it's not like the story with nuclear or coal power where finding sites is genuinely hard.
Avonmouth, it's a massive car and other goods import terminal with some housing attached.
Three turbines at any height are hardly out of place, especially with all the other nearby big infrastructure.
This is a genuine positive thing and it’s just NIMBYism on steroids