04/09/2026
💚 WHITESTONE WARRIORS STYLE PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 💚
If you’ve been thinking:
* “I’ll do it later”
* “I wouldn’t know what to say”
* “Surely loads of other people have already done it”
* “It all looks a bit official and terrifying”
…firstly, fair enough.
Secondly, that’s exactly why we keep banging on about it 😄
Registering your interest with the Planning Inspectorate is not a test.
Nobody is marking your grammar.
Nobody expects you to suddenly turn into a planning barrister.
And no, you do not need to sit in your kitchen wearing reading glasses with 17 documents spread around you looking like you’re about to solve a murder.
You just need to do one simple thing:
👉 Make sure your voice is counted.
One of our followers sent us this poem, and honestly, it says it better than we ever could:
DON’T LET SILENCE SPEAK FOR YOU
They’ll count the acres.
They’ll count the panels.
They’ll count the megawatts too.
But when the decisions are finally made…
will they have counted you?
They’ll draw their lines across our fields,
Across the places that we know,
The lanes we walk, the views we love,
The fields where generations grow.
They’ll talk of targets, plans and power,
Of figures written on a page,
But those who live amongst these fields
Deserve a voice upon that stage.
You don’t need planning qualifications.
You don’t need pages of legal words.
You don’t need to be an expert.
You simply need to say:
“This matters to me.”
Because silence won’t tell them about the traffic.
Silence won’t tell them about flooding.
Silence won’t speak for our wildlife, our farmland, our footpaths or our villages.
Silence won’t tell them what could be lost.
And when this examination begins, there may be no second chance to say:
“I wish I’d registered.”
So please, before 11 September, take a few minutes and register your interest.
It takes less time than:
* making a brew and forgetting where you put it
* scrolling Facebook for “just 2 minutes” and resurfacing 45 minutes later
* arguing over what to have for tea
* saying “I must do that later” 14 times and then panicking at the deadline 😄
But the message behind it is serious:
If local people don’t speak up, silence gets counted instead.
Whether you oppose the scheme, support it, or just want your concerns heard — register.
Be counted.
Be heard.
Don’t leave it to somebody else.
For our fields.
For our villages.
For our future.
And thank you to the follower who sent us the poem — you absolutely nailed it. 💚
