Post by Brent George on Feb 22, 2024 20:06:18 GMT
Residents say Solar Farm will ruin ‘Rural Outlook’
Stuff - South Auckland: 22-Feb-2024
Residents of a quiet rural south Auckland community say they are devastated a solar farm has been given the green light for development without any public consultation.
Kenny Ardmore Limited (KAL) plans to build and operate a solar farm with 18,000 solar panels, on 13 hectares of land at Ardmore, south Auckland.
In applying for a resource consent, KAL chose to proceed without public notification, which wasn't mandatory for its application.
An interesting issue.
Without any reverse sensitivity agreements, how can rural-residential landowners on lifestyle type sections protect their views and their quiet enjoyment of that rural ambience in perpetuity?
Or should they just maintain hope that any changes to neighbouring land-use is not too negative (could have been a pig farm!).
And how is this any different to a city residential area where a view over the neighbours older single-storey house is lost due to a 2 or 3-storey compliant development that replaces old building stock?
Stuff - South Auckland: 22-Feb-2024
Residents of a quiet rural south Auckland community say they are devastated a solar farm has been given the green light for development without any public consultation.
Kenny Ardmore Limited (KAL) plans to build and operate a solar farm with 18,000 solar panels, on 13 hectares of land at Ardmore, south Auckland.
In applying for a resource consent, KAL chose to proceed without public notification, which wasn't mandatory for its application.
An interesting issue.
Without any reverse sensitivity agreements, how can rural-residential landowners on lifestyle type sections protect their views and their quiet enjoyment of that rural ambience in perpetuity?
Or should they just maintain hope that any changes to neighbouring land-use is not too negative (could have been a pig farm!).
And how is this any different to a city residential area where a view over the neighbours older single-storey house is lost due to a 2 or 3-storey compliant development that replaces old building stock?