By Geoff Fisher Re Hugh Ivins’ comments (Your Letters, 25 April 2025), how is it that such a major decision affecting thousands of Broadland residents be made by three members of a committee of Broadland District Council?
Given also the absence of several of the planning committee, surely such a decision should have been passed to the full council to make the final decision.
It sounds as if the committee had been lent on, especially when the chair of the committee, being fully aware of the scale and nature of the objections, used her vote to accept the proposal.
Given the planned large-scale solar farms in the Dereham/Swaffham area and around Long Stratton, which it is said will generate far more electricity than is needed in Norfolk, no further solar farms should be allowed, especially on greenfield sites.
What can be done to investigate the actions of the Broadland Planning Committee?
Bryan Gostling, Bircham Road, Reepham
Geoff Fisher