Wall's agin' Uriarra Solar

HelenO said :

There are many other reasons which we will need to address once the DA is released. If you want to understand the impact come for a drive out to the area, stop into the village and look across the road, everything you see that is green will be gone replaced with a sea of black panels.

If you want to be involved in town planning, become an employee in the relevant area. Otherwise, stop trying to put your oar in to obstruct and delay government in doing its job to provide us with the infrastructure we need.

The idiots from the “O’Connor Ridge NIMBY” group managed to cost the ACT Ratepayer many tens of millions with their pointless obstruction of a road the entire community needed – it’s time NIMBYs were treated as the irrelevant annoyance that they are.

thebrownstreak69 said :

That doesn’t mean you can just destroy amenity willy nilly.

That’s not the point. The point is that this constant carping about how if someone lives in a community titled property this makes them different to anyone else is a load of rubbish.

davo101 said :

and the magic pixies are not going to fix the potholes in the road.

They don’t? Damn. I thought they were just on strike again.

davo101 said :

HelenO said :

We are against failure to consider 100 families who live in a village as a community title that means we have complete financial responsibility for all the utilities and services, with the exception of a garbage service courtesy of ACT govt

Oh sure, all of the services and utilities; so that’d include: hospital, police force, school system,
power station….. And I’m guessing you built that road out to Uriarra yourselves.

HelenO said :

plus we still pay rates.

Just like every other leaseholder in this Territory. Rates are based on unimproved land values which means the less attractive your area is to live in the less you have to pay. Take this nice little house, if it was in Cook, for example, the rates would be something like $4200 a year but because it’s in the boonies the rates are only $1280; that hospital is not going to pay for itself and the magic pixies are not going to fix the potholes in the road.

That doesn’t mean you can just destroy amenity willy nilly.

HelenO said :

We are against failure to consider 100 families who live in a village as a community title that means we have complete financial responsibility for all the utilities and services, with the exception of a garbage service courtesy of ACT govt

Oh sure, all of the services and utilities; so that’d include: hospital, police force, school system,
power station….. And I’m guessing you built that road out to Uriarra yourselves.

HelenO said :

plus we still pay rates.

Just like every other leaseholder in this Territory. Rates are based on unimproved land values which means the less attractive your area is to live in the less you have to pay. Take this nice little house, if it was in Cook, for example, the rates would be something like $4200 a year but because it’s in the boonies the rates are only $1280; that hospital is not going to pay for itself and the magic pixies are not going to fix the potholes in the road.

CraigT said :

HelenO said :

I am grateful that Andrew Wall is standing up against this because Corbell has blah blah blah

Johnboy, was this posted from the same phonenumber they are all hiding behind these days?

Johnboy, I used my name unlike many on this site that hide behind a screen name.

OLydia said :

I would like to know what are the potential impacts of a solar farm close to Uriarra Village. Are the concerns relating to the building of the farm (noise, traffic etc) or its ongoing operation? Or about possible additional risks to home owners in the event of a bushfire? Or concerns about impact to the visual amennity leading to possible reductions in property values?

I am not trolling – I really want to know. All I have heard is that villagers are upset but am not sure why.

As a village we are pro solar, we are against lack of consultation, we are against a government that has changed leasing agreements to Rural Land that now allows Major Utilities.

There are many things we are concerned about. proximity to the village is one. Failure to consult is another, failure for the ACT government to consider residential or economic impact is a third. This has been considered a done deal since the announcement. There are many other reasons which we will need to address once the DA is released. If you want to understand the impact come for a drive out to the area, stop into the village and look across the road, everything you see that is green will be gone replaced with a sea of black panels.

HelenO said :

I am grateful that Andrew Wall is standing up against this because Corbell has blah blah blah

Johnboy, was this posted from the same phonenumber they are all hiding behind these days?

I would like to know what are the potential impacts of a solar farm close to Uriarra Village. Are the concerns relating to the building of the farm (noise, traffic etc) or its ongoing operation? Or about possible additional risks to home owners in the event of a bushfire? Or concerns about impact to the visual amennity leading to possible reductions in property values?

I am not trolling – I really want to know. All I have heard is that villagers are upset but am not sure why.

Can we just be really clear on this the village is PRO SOLAR. We are pro consultation, we are pro protecting our heritage valleys and Indigenous sites and we are pro our views we worked hard for and paid for.

What we are against is a government that believes it does not need to consult with its constituents.

A government that had this plan in the pipe line since 2010, if not before, and felt no compulsion to provide information for people buying blocks of land.

We are against failure to consider 100 families who live in a village as a community title that means we have complete financial responsibility for all the utilities and services, with the exception of a garbage service courtesy of ACT govt, plus we still pay rates.

We are against a government that in 2012 changed the Rural Leases on NUZ1 and NUZ2 land that means that any ACT rural land with this coding can now legally propose and build a coal or gas fired power station, a sewerage treatment works, major electrical conduits, tunnels and retention basins and dams and you are powerless to stop it.

All ACT residents who live on or near Rural Land should be NIMBY’s we are being ridden rough shot over because someone does not like their plans changed.

There are three equally suitable blocks in the vicinity that would serve this purpose just as well and would not impact on any homes, or views or home valuations.

Tell me, would you like an installation as big as 500 standard house blocks 2.5 metres high surrounded by 2.8 metre fencing, razor wire, security lighting and installation sheds less than 50 metres from your back door and to top that off loose up to 30% of your homes value, if you can sell at all.

If this goes ahead financially my family and many others in the village are completely stuffed. In our case 25 years of hard work saving and doing without will all come to nothing because of one ego. Yes I am a NIMBY and every ACT resident should take the time to think about what this means. Every home purchaser who wants to live or currently does live near Rural Lease could have the same thing happen. This is Stage One.

I am grateful that Andrew Wall is standing up against this because Corbell has done everything behind closed doors over the last three years to make this happen, he has changed lease agreements, he has already printed and released brochures with the solar plants location on it. He has stated “it will be built” and the DA will be signed under his signature……… Fair and equitable I think not.