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VBB 558 posts |
Mar 03, 2011, 08:54
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ocifant wrote: tjj wrote: From what I've read in subsequent posts, you have been working on a project concerning their use at some heritage sites .. so may I take this opportunity of wishing you well with that. Thanks June. Plans and discussions are ongoing on the project. I won't say more at this stage, other than "watch this space". If that space is in Avebury then someone will perhaps be encouraged by recent events to put in to build on it and Wilts planners judging by those same events are likely to be sympathetic no matter what objections are made by conservationists on behalf of the WHS that is supposed to take precedence. What are we going to say to a field of solar panels with the odd monuments stiicking out?
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nigelswift 8112 posts |
Mar 03, 2011, 09:00
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So who owns our heritage? Kennett Planning Committee. It's a fact, with ample evidence that it is true.
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Resonox 604 posts |
Mar 03, 2011, 09:30
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VBB wrote: What are we going to say to a field of solar panels with the odd monuments stiicking out? That paints a truly horrifying picture...but not necessarily an unlikely one. I have seen photographs of some Welsh countryside....with these great big "alternative energy sources" all over the place. However the most frightening thing was actually seeing the amount of them on Scottish hillsides....I don't know how much electricity they produce...but the sheer number of them MUST be powering the whole National Grid. I did wonder though as reghards to the siting of these "windmills" was any archeology excavations taken prior to their erection....who knows what cairns, dwellings or barrows etc have been obliterated.
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tiompan 5758 posts |
Mar 03, 2011, 09:36
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Resonox wrote: VBB wrote: What are we going to say to a field of solar panels with the odd monuments stiicking out? I did wonder though as reghards to the siting of these "windmills" was any archeology excavations taken prior to their erection....who knows what cairns, dwellings or barrows etc have been obliterated. There would have been , at least , a walk over survey , followed by a watching brief . God knows how many times I've found rock art on land that had had the former and they failed to notice it .
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Resonox 604 posts |
Mar 03, 2011, 09:39
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tiompan wrote: Resonox wrote: VBB wrote: What are we going to say to a field of solar panels with the odd monuments stiicking out? I did wonder though as reghards to the siting of these "windmills" was any archeology excavations taken prior to their erection....who knows what cairns, dwellings or barrows etc have been obliterated. There would have been , at least , a walk over survey , followed by a watching brief . God knows how many times I've found rock art on land that had had the former and they failed to notice it . Nothing short of frightening isn't it!
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moss 2897 posts |
Mar 03, 2011, 11:19
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Resonox wrote: VBB wrote: What are we going to say to a field of solar panels with the odd monuments stiicking out? That paints a truly horrifying picture...but not necessarily an unlikely one. I have seen photographs of some Welsh countryside....with these great big "alternative energy sources" all over the place. However the most frightening thing was actually seeing the amount of them on Scottish hillsides....I don't know how much electricity they produce...but the sheer number of them MUST be powering the whole National Grid. I did wonder though as reghards to the siting of these "windmills" was any archeology excavations taken prior to their erection....who knows what cairns, dwellings or barrows etc have been obliterated. Funnily enough there was a letter about the the felling of trees in one of the Scottish papers this morning, I should have posted it under news but was too lazy to find the site on TMA... http://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/community/letters-to-the-editor/felling_a_danger_for_historic_sites_1_1479178 But the question of wind turbines is also a matter of great controversy as well, especially in the case of Callanish on the Isle of Lewis and disturbance of archaeological sites, sea eagles and displacing the viewpoint. I suspect the argument for such things as 'alternative energy sources' is that on the whole they are temporary, even though they will always be there during our lifetime. Note; when we close our eyes eventually forever, the world ceases to exist! ;)
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tjj 3606 posts |
Mar 03, 2011, 13:00
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VBB wrote: If that space is in Avebury then someone will perhaps be encouraged by recent events to put in to build on it and Wilts planners judging by those same events are likely to be sympathetic no matter what objections are made by conservationists on behalf of the WHS that is supposed to take precedence. What are we going to say to a field of solar panels with the odd monuments stiicking out? Surely the only sensible place to put solar panels is on roofs - I understand a couple of panels generates enough energy to heat the average home with enough left over to sell back to the National Grid.
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VBB 558 posts |
Mar 03, 2011, 17:13
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tjj wrote: VBB wrote: If that space is in Avebury then someone will perhaps be encouraged by recent events to put in to build on it and Wilts planners judging by those same events are likely to be sympathetic no matter what objections are made by conservationists on behalf of the WHS that is supposed to take precedence. What are we going to say to a field of solar panels with the odd monuments stiicking out? Surely the only sensible place to put solar panels is on roofs - I understand a couple of panels generates enough energy to heat the average home with enough left over to sell back to the National Grid. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327375/The-solar-panel-gold-rush-threatens-ruin-countryside.html
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jackyboy 145 posts |
Mar 03, 2011, 17:15
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VBB wrote: tjj wrote: VBB wrote: If that space is in Avebury then someone will perhaps be encouraged by recent events to put in to build on it and Wilts planners judging by those same events are likely to be sympathetic no matter what objections are made by conservationists on behalf of the WHS that is supposed to take precedence. What are we going to say to a field of solar panels with the odd monuments stiicking out? Surely the only sensible place to put solar panels is on roofs - I understand a couple of panels generates enough energy to heat the average home with enough left over to sell back to the National Grid. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327375/The-solar-panel-gold-rush-threatens-ruin-countryside.html F Kin hel
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VBB 558 posts |
Mar 03, 2011, 17:23
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jackyboy wrote: VBB wrote: tjj wrote: VBB wrote: If that space is in Avebury then someone will perhaps be encouraged by recent events to put in to build on it and Wilts planners judging by those same events are likely to be sympathetic no matter what objections are made by conservationists on behalf of the WHS that is supposed to take precedence. What are we going to say to a field of solar panels with the odd monuments stiicking out? Surely the only sensible place to put solar panels is on roofs - I understand a couple of panels generates enough energy to heat the average home with enough left over to sell back to the National Grid. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327375/The-solar-panel-gold-rush-threatens-ruin-countryside.html F Kin hel Quite!
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