LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]


Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

Get weekly updates

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Paypal

Donate via Stripe

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005.

News Watch Home

Council seeking views over wind farms 

Villagers are being invited to go on line to give their views on a proposed wind farm in south Norfolk.

SLP Energy is seeking consent to put up a meteorological mast to measure wind speed at the site at Semere Green Lane, Dickleburgh, to find out whether the location is suitable before deciding whether to put in a full planning application.

The company is looking to build seven 125m high turbines, with five located to the north of the village and one each in the neighbouring parishes of Pulham St Mary and Pulham Market.

Dickleburgh village website has launched a poll, asking residents whether they are in favour of the development. There have been 34 responses to date, with 79pc against the wind farm and 21pc in favour.

Meanwhile South Norfolk Council is carrying out a “scoping opinion” – seeking comments from statutory bodies, including parish councils, prior to SLP submitting an environmental assessment.

Opponents include Nigel Webber, whose home in Harleston Road, Rushall, faces towards the proposed site.

He said, in his letter to the planning authority, that it is an area of “outstanding beauty” with a wide diversity of wildlife, and the turbine towers would be totally unacceptable and dominant.

Former South Norfolk MP Lord MacGregor, who lives at Pulham, also wrote to the district council criticising the limited time scale allowed for comments. The original deadline has now been extended to Thursday, August 9.

Dickleburgh and Rushall Parish Council is holding a public meeting on July 25, before making its response.

By Celia Wigg

EDP 24

13 July 2007

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.

Wind Watch relies entirely
on User Funding
   Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)
Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI TG TG Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon