Reduce Dorset’s impact on climate change - Dorset Council

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• Posted by lovedorset1 July 30, 2024 at 09:13

  We need to remember that tourism is one of the main industries in Dorset and whilst there is obviously a need to reduce carbon emissions, this should not take precedence over conserving our beautiful landscape. Well screened solar (up to 100 acres) is acceptable but care must be taken not to despoil views with large scale wind turbines. The four legs of the white elephant near Wareham (when will they start working?) have already ruined views from National Landscapes in Purbeck and North Dorset and a proposed new turbine near Bere Regis which would be as high as the London Eye and taller than Salisbury Cathedral will be very visible from downland footpaths and roads from Winterborne Whitechurch to Cheselbourne and beyond. We do have an alternative in Dorset which is offshore wind and again, whilst this is visually disturbing, it does not diminish landscapes in the same way as onshore wind. If carbon neutrality is deemed to supersede everything else, then Dorset can forget tourism inland because studies have proven that holiday makers do not want to see giant turbines in hitherto unspoiled views.

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• Posted by DrLizzy August 08, 2024 at 20:00

  This is crucial.

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• Posted by SwanageResident25 August 17, 2024 at 20:04

  It must be a requirement that all new builds are built to the highest standard, all with solar panels and as green as possible. For too long developers in Swanage have got away with throwing up any old rubbish, particularly for social housing; this must stop!!

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• Posted by Conversationalist September 07, 2024 at 11:45

  Have our decision-makers got the courage to be sensible and insist on sustainable long-life and low-energy housing : matters advocated by the RIBA many decades ago.
  

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