Pressure group set to continue
The co-ordinator of Vortex (Veto on Rural Turbine Expansion) says the pressure group is in “buoyant mood” and ready to continue the fight against plans to build a wind farm near Market Drayton.
This week energy firm Neon Renewables formally appealed against North Shropshire District Council’s decision to refuse permission to site seven giant turbines on land at Lower Farm, in Bearstone.
But Vortex co-ordinator Terry May said the fight will continue and that the group are going to do all they can to stop the proposal going ahead.
She said: “We maintain that the windfarm is in the wrong location and will effect a lot of people.
“We understand that the government is under a lot of pressure to put up these windfarms but we have to fight it. We believe there is a strong case to turn this proposal down and we are going to do our very best.
“Everyone agrees this is the wrong place to put a windfarm, the only people who will benefit are those making money from it. We are in buoyant mood and ready to go on, we have to stop it if we can.”
Graham Davey, project manager for Nuon said the company is confident the site at Lower Farm is appropriate for the windfarm.
“In both cases, officers advising the councillors recommended approval in detailed and exhaustive assessments of all the environmental and planning considerations that could possibly have a bearing.
“Nuon is confident that this wind farm proposal is of a scale and design appropriate to the site and we look forward to the opportunity of presenting the case at appeal,” he said.
Terry May said Vortex will hold a meeting later this month in order to agree a strategy.
She said: “We will meet with both Bill Cash and Owen Paterson as well as our legal, environmental and landscape experts to see the best way forward.
“We’ve been fighting this for two years, and as soon as it’s sorted out the better because it upsets people and they get emotional about it, and it affects their health so we would like to get it resolved.”
10 October 2008
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