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

Wind monitoring mast plan looks set to be approved 

Plans for a monitoring mast at a site controversially earmarked for Britain’s biggest-ever wind turbines looks set to be approved today.

Opponents have launched a protest group and won backing from Hillsborough MP Angela Smith in their fight to stop the development at Sheephouse Heights, by the side of the Stocksbridge Bypass.

The gigantic structures would tower 410ft or 125 metres into the sky.

Protect Sheephouse Heights campaign group is worried the height and colossal size of the turbines would make them visible for miles.

Evelop UK Ltd Erection has applied for plannng permission for a 70metre, or 229ft high wind monitoring mast on green belt land, next to Sheephouse Farm off Mortimer Road, Penistone.

The action group, Langsett and Oxspring Parish Councils and Penistone councillor Robert Barnard have all objected to the temporary mast.

But planners at Barnsley Council look set to approve the application after being told it will only be in place for three months.

They were told it does “involves the introduction of a relatively large and alien structure into the landscape”.

Protest group spokesman Alan Hey said: “The logistics of massive movements of materials and components, transporting 40,000 tonnes of building material to the site, would create enormous problems on rural roads.”

By Gail Robinson

The Star

22 July 2008

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