DON’T INDUSTRIALISE BENTLEY LANDSCAPE (DIBL)
Do you want your countryside to continue to look like this?
Plans are moving forward to industrialise Bentley Landscape - despite more suitable, local brownfield sites being available.
STOP the mega Battery Energy Storage System (B.E.S.S)
WHERE?
Bradfords Lane off the A22. The area on the map between Brockwells Farm and Limes Pit.
LANDSCAPE?
Ancient woodland, copses, meadows and fields, an unspoilt gem.
WHAT’S HAPPENING?
Planning is being sought to build a gigantic Battery Energy Storage System (B.E.S.S).
Effects of a B.E.S.S?
Industrial complexes which require total concreting of the area.
If necessary trees, hedgerows and meadows removed, wetlands drained.
Noise equivalent to a fast busy road.
Air conditioning units 24/7 to mitigate fire risk of the gigantic batteries. Batteries can burn for months.
Building takes two years and requires 100 lorry journeys a day, the small lanes will not cope.
Loss of ecological wildlife corridors.
Yet more loss of the Low Weald landscape.
Harm to settings of grade 2 heritage buildings.
B.E.S.S in this unspoilt rural location would devastate the rural character and landscape.
IS B.E.S.S NEEDED THERE?
It’s debatable. Permission has already been given for a big B.E.S.S in nearby Palehouse Common.
WHERE SHOULD B.E.S.S. BE?
On brown field sites, commercial areas, locations with development.
Act now - before it’s too late to stop…
Damaging irreplaceable ancient woodlands through light, noise, and pollution.
Industrialising an unspoilt rural area.
Destroying important farmland, reducing vital food security.
Tearing up meadows, trees and hedgerows, releasing carbon and preventing future locking in of carbon.
Harm to Biodiversity and Ecology.
Encouraging further development such as solar farms and housing.
How you can help
Sign up to be the first to know when we have an update on the plans including how to object to planning and sign our petition.
“We live our comfortable lives in the shadow of a disaster of our own making. That disaster is being brought about by the very things that allow us to live our comfortable lives.”
— David Attenborough