Your article on the solar panel proposal at Tomkins Farm (Chailey protesters cast cloud over solar farm proposals, May 14) provides a good example of the conflict between two important environmental considerations – green energy and green fields. In this case I believe the argument for green fields wins the day.

The site is flanked by well used, easily accessible public footpaths on its northern and south-western boundaries, and it lies in the centre of an area of open fields supporting sheep, alpacas and a few pigs.

People go there to walk and appreciate the gently rolling landscape, and their enjoyment would be ruined if such a large section of it was given over to gleaming blue/black solar panels.

There are, of course, some people who cannot see why there is such a fuss over a few fields, but I assure them that many share the view that certain landscapes deserve preserving, and Tomkins Farm is one.

If the plans go through the solar panels will be there for 25 years, possibly longer, and so this field may never look the same again. In the words of the old song: “You don’t know what you've got till it’s gone”. Michael Morton-George Coppards Bridge Cinder Hill, Chailey