Resource Library Category: U.K. (61 items)
Documents presented here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch. This resource library is provided to assist anyone wishing to research the issue of industrial wind power and the impacts of its development. The information should be evaluated by each reader to come to their own conclusions about the many areas of debate.
Paul’s Moor Appeal Decision
Author: Major, Philip
“I dismiss the appeal and refuse planning permission …”
Inquiry opened on 9 June 2009; Accompanied site visits made on 2 & 3 July 2009; by Philip Major BA(Hons) DipTP MRTPI, an Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Appeal Ref: APP/X1118/A/08/2083682 Land at Paul’s Moor, Wester Bullaford, West Moor, north of Knowstone, South Molton EX36 4QH.
The appeal is made under section 78 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
against a failure to give notice within . . .
Bickham Moor Appeal Decision
Author: Major, Philip
“I dismiss the appeal and refuse planning permission …”
Inquiry opened on 9 June 2009; Accompanied site visits made on 2 & 3 July 2009; by Philip Major BA(Hons) DipTP MRTPI, an Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Appeal Ref: APP/Y1138/A/08/2084526
Bickham Moor, Kirkton Lane, Oakford, Devon EX16 9HB.
The appeal is made under section 78 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 against a failure to give notice within the prescribed period of a decision on an . . .
Sillfield Appeal Decision
Author: Brooks, Robin
“I dismiss the appeal and refuse planning permission.”
Inquiry held on 16-23 October 2009; Site visits made on 23, 27, 28 October 2009 and 13 January 2010; by Robin Brooks BA (Hons) MRTPI, an Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Appeal Ref: APP/M0933/A/09/2099304
Sillfield, Gatebeck, Kendal, Cumbria LA8 0HS
The appeal is made under Section 78 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 against a failure to give notice within the prescribed period of a decision on . . .
Big Wind: How Many Households Served, What Emissions Reduction? (A Case Study)
Author: Hawkins, Kent; and Hertzmark, Donald
In the midst of a bitter winter in North America and Europe, General Electric has announced a large wind project to be built in Oregon. Press reports in the Financial Times and USA Today describe a project of 338 machines of 2.5 MW each, giving a total capacity of 845 MW.
With power grids strained due to heating demand, increments to generating capacity are to be welcomed. But along with the usual hoopla about homes served and CO2 emissions savings, it . . .
Government suppresses noise protection expert advice
Author: Den Brook Judicial Review Group
New Evidence Shows that Government Suppressed Expert Advice to Lower Wind Turbine Noise Limits Intended to Protect Residents.
Summary
New evidence released by the Dept. of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) under a Freedom of Information (FOI) request shows that Government suppressed a recommendation by its own acoustics consultants to tighten current noise regulations on wind turbines in order to protect local residents from night time noise. This does little credit to the Department, and must be corrected immediately.
Introduction
In 2006 the Government . . .
Wind Power may not be the answer
Author: Bass, Robert; and Wilmot, Peter
The government has determined one of its major solutions to reducing global warming as the installation of a large number of wind farms to generate up to 8GW of electricity and so reduce the emissions of the green house gas, carbon dioxide. To encourage the installation of wind power generators, the price paid per unit of power will be approximately three times that currently paid to fossil fuelled stations.
When the new wind farms start to generate for the national grid, . . .
Appeal Decision – Gorsedd Bran, Nantglyn, Wales
Author: Wild, Stuart
by Stuart B Wild, MRTPI MCIM,
an Inspector appointed by the Welsh Ministers,
18/11/09
The development proposed is the construction of 13 wind turbine generators (up to 125m in overall height) c/w electrical control room & compound area, new & improved access tracks, underground cabling, 80m anemometry mast, ancillary works and equipment; temporary construction works; new vehicular access from the minor county road; removal of conifer forest.
Decision: I dismiss the appeal.
Main issues: I consider that the main issues in this case are . . .
Wind Turbine Noise at Grays Farm, Deeping St Nicholas
Author: Davis, Jane
Witness Statement of S. Jane Davis in support of Friends of the South Pennines and the Todmorden Moor Restoration Trust.
1. Sound Pressure Wave Modulation recorded at Grays Farm
This slide illustrates the characteristic peak to trough trace of amplitude modulation recorded in the bedroom of our house in July of 2008. In terms of the severity of what we have suffered over the past two and a half years this level of modulation would rate as 6 on a scale of . . .
Wind farm illness
Author: Burkhardt, Gwen
SIR – There seems to be a great deal of controversy about the effect of wind turbine noises on human health.
I can assure everyone who needs to know, that some people like myself have found it impossible to live near them.
I had lived on our family farm for 27 years. I was living in the community where I grew up and where some of my family still live.
We had invested a great deal of our time into our home, and . . .
Cumbria under siege: windfarm status map, June 2009
Author: Friends of Eden Lakeland and Lunesdale Scenery (FELLS)
Note: LDNP = Lake District National Park; YDNP = Yorkshire Dales National Park; AONB = Area of Natural Beauty.
Download table with project details: “Summary of wind farm applications in Cumbria and northwest Lancashire rejected or at the scoping, planning and public inquiry stage”
