Wind Power News: U.K.
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Rural wind turbine plan rejected
Six wind turbines will not be built at a rural beauty spot in north Dorset after councillors unanimously voted to throw out the plans.
Ecotricity wanted to build the 394ft (120m) turbines in Silton.
Hundreds of people packed the meeting in the Olive Bowl conference centre, in Gillingham, while another 100 who could not get in waited outside.
North Dorset District councillors went against their own planning officer’s recommendation to approve the scheme.
Save Our Silton campaigners waved banners and placards reading “No giant . . .
Welshpool wind turbines fight: Turbines protest goes to AMs
Civic leaders were travelling to Cardiff today to take their fight to prevent thousands of lorries from “destroying” a Mid Wales town to the Welsh Assembly.
Welshpool Town Council has been fighting to stop any windfarm transportation from travelling through the town.
Town mayor Ann Holloway, Councillors Estelle Bleivas and John Meredith and council clerk Robert Robinson were making the trip.
Mr Robinson said a petition seeking a public inquiry would be delivered to the Assembly.
He said: “We hope that by handing in . . .
Wind farm fury mounts
Hundreds of concerned residents crowded into a meeting about controversial plans for a windfarm on greenbelt land near Stone.
Severn Trent Water staged a public exhibition at Aston Village Hall on Saturday to showcase its proposals to install three wind turbines at Aston Hall Farm, between Aston-by-Stone and Burston.
But protesters put up posters on the opposite side of the room and set up a stand outside — with the permission of Severn Trent Water — and collected more than 300 names . . .
Green light for controversial wind farm
A controversial wind farm near Yarm has been approved at the second time of asking.
Stockton Council’s planning committee gave the green light yesterday for three 125-metre wind turbines to be built on land between Seamer and Hilton.
Broadview Energy had submitted a revised application for the development after both Stockton and Hambleton councils refused its original plans last year.
Once again the plans met with major opposition from local villagers, with around 400 letters of objection sent to Stockton Council against around . . .
Power company withdraw plans for windfarm
Scottish Power Renewables has announced this week that it is no longer looking at siting a windfarm at Chilla Moor.
The company said the wind power that would be generated was not enough to justify pursuing the project which has met with much opposition locally.
An action group CAT (Chilla Against Turbines) was set up when the energy company expressed an interest in putting a windfarm on Chilla Moor.
Scottish Power Renewables was looking into site accessibility, wind strength and speeds and infrastructure . . .
'We're prepared for wind farm inquiry,' says group
Campaigners in Swinford say they are fully prepared for the start of a public inquiry which will decide whether or not a wind farm is built less than a mile from their village.
The Stop the Swinford Wind Farm Action Group (SSWFAG) is fighting proposals submitted by energy firm Nuon UK to build 11 wind turbines, each 125 metres tall, on land between Swinford and Walcote.
The planning application, which was first lodged more than a year ago in April 2008, will . . .
Wind monitor mast tipped for approval
Controversial plans to install a meteorological wind monitoring mast at a former airship station have been recommended for approval, despite local concerns.
South Norfolk Council has received 272 objections to the application, by green energy company TCI Renewables Ltd, to have a 60-metre high mast at Semere Green Road, Dickleburgh, for two years.
The land at Upper Vaunces Farm was once part of Pulham Air Station and the mast would enable the firm to assess the suitability of the site for a . . .
D-Day looms for wind farm ruling
A High Court Judge will decide this week if giant turbines should be built at Carsington Pastures – in what could be a landmark case for the future of wind farms across Britain.
On Monday the Peak District National Park Authority joined forces with Derbyshire Dales District Council to ask Lord Justice Carnwath, sitting at the High Court in London, to block plans for four 102m turbines.
The application was originally rejected by the district council but was given the go-ahead . . .
D-Day in Silton wind turbines battle
Angry protesters were due to voice their opposition today to six giant wind turbines planned for a rural beauty spot near Madonna’s former country estate.
Green energy firm Ecotricity plans to build the 120m turbines near Silton, Gillingham in Dorset.
North Dorset District Council’s planning officers have recommended the scheme for approval and a development control committee will make a final decision today.
Around 200 residents were to protest outside the meeting in the Olive Bowl conference centre, Gillingham, with a handful due . . .
Wind turbine plan is backed at last
Plans to build three 125-metre high wind turbines at a beauty spot have been approved at the second time of asking.
Broadview Energy has been given permission by Stockton Borough Council’s planning committee to build the windfarm on land between Seamer and Hilton, near Stockton.
It was a revised application by the company after councillors refused an initial scheme in October last year saying they wanted more detailed information.
At the planning meeting yesterday, the members’ vote was tied at five-all after a . . .
