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 Auchentiber BESS, Kilmacolm Parish 700MW

We, the noted below, object in the strongest possible terms to the accepted application for the Auchentiber BESS 700MW due to the following reasons:
- There has been limited community engagement due to being termed ‘Port Glasgow Parish’ and no local advertising. The result was hardly anyone had heard of the application. Only Port Glasgow Community Council, (who also were not statutorily consulted) and the Kilmacolm Civic Trust responded. Many still have not heard of the situation.
- Inverclyde Council did not seek local engagement and did not request environmental and fire risk assessments which in our opinion, were mandatory for such a huge site. Although the site has a capacity over 50MW - the Scottish Government,s jurisdiction, Inverclyde Council still has a duty of care to all its residents.
- Some objections were sent still within date but were deleted and not accepted. The site closed 4 days later.

We have spoken to over 100 Kilmacolm residents, with the majority unaware of the proposed development due to the lack of local engagement by the company or 'local' consultation. All advertising and engagements were done outwith the parish.
Of the site:
- 65 acres of productive agricultural land - a scarce commodity here, producing cattle, silage, grazing, and barley
- One of the biggest standalone proposed site in Scotland in the middle of some of the most beautiful and peaceful countryside.
- no fire risk assessment or plan from Scottish Fire Service for leakage of chemicals. No access to water - the river is at the bottom of the area with no access to water within the length of the Gryffe here.
-River Gryffe pollution: Apatura, the company putting forward the application, also engaged as environmental Assessments Advisor under AAH - Adrian Hill is director of both. No flora assessment has been made.
- The bat survey has been ignored in the acceptance of the application. It was stated that another survey be done in winter when bats roost and breed and also set strict times where no work must go ahead, mainly at times an hour before and after dawn and dusk. Will this be upheld?
- Light pollution: 24 hour a daylight contamination. Several houses will suffer greatly from this light. Birds and bats will not be able to live in the area, alongside 24 hr noise. Just over 8 miles from the site is an RSPB registered site for Hen Harriers.
-River flooding:- the field is largely boggy. There is substantial runoff from existing streams and springs already. Covering the ground with pads for siting the units will not allow the ground to soak up the excess water, which will run straight into the river.
This will only increase that runoff in this site.
- no environmental risk assessment: BESS give out carbon dioxide daily. In the event of fire or even heating up, lithium fluoride, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, VOCs, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, aerosols and particulate matter and fluoride compounds are released. The site is upwind of Port Glasgow, Greenock and Kilmacolm, all within one mile of the site, with several farms and houses within the 300m radius.
- 24 hour a day noise- 50dB from each unit
- Hundreds of lorries through Greenock, Port Glasgow, Kilmacolm, Bridge of Weir and other towns and villages depending on source, along an unclassified road (that’s narrower than a C class road) and one of the detours when flooding at the Clyde.
- the site is hilly, with the ground higher to the west and lower to the east which means no fully grown tree could block out the light and noise pollution. Also the plans are not defined as to where the trees will be planted (also a fire risk with the surrounding two forest plantations)

• - 8miles from RSPB site for protected Hen Harriers
• - home to otters, badgers, trout and nesting bats. No bird or bat will nest or breed with light pollution or noise. The birds and bats are protected by law but will be terribly affected.
• - more than a mile of (presumably) deep trenches to the substation, to hold very high voltage cables on ground with surface bedrock
  - severe reduction in house prices within Kilmacolm and surrounding areas.

Yours faithfully,
(name. address. email)