| Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005. |
Wind farm extension not currently supported by Bognor Regis Town Council
Credit: By Joshua Powling | Bognor Regis Ovserver | Thursday, 11th March 2021 | www.bognor.co.uk ~~
Translate: FROM English | TO English
Translate: FROM English | TO English
Plans to extend the Rampion Wind Farm are not currently supported by Bognor Regis Town Council (BRTC).
An informal consultation is currently being held before in depth plans are submitted.
The current area of search for a possible extension stretches as far as Bognor Regis.
Meanwhile cables connecting the turbines to the national grid could make landfall at Climping beach, connecting via an underground route to the substation at Bolney in Mid Sussex.
Back in February, the community engagement and environment committee recommended that BTRC did not support the Rampion 2 project.
However at a full council meeting on Monday (March 8), some members felt they should be backing the wind farm’s extension.
Steve Goodheart (Ind, Hotham) said: “We should be doing whatever we can to fight this climate emergency.”
Meanwhile Matt Stanley (LDem, Marine) pointed out how off-shore wind farms feature prominently in the government’s plans for a green industrial revolution.
He described how organisations such as the RSPB generally support off-shore wind farms unless there are specific reasons not to such as placement.
He said: “Personally I think the council should be taking a similar sort of stance that we should be supportive unless there’s a reason not to be and I have not seen a reason not to.”
In particular Mr Stanley felt there was no evidence to suggest off-shore wind farms have a negative impact on tourism.
He added: “I would like to think as a council, unless we had facts to back up our concerns and reasons to object, that we would give this project the benefit of the doubt for the time being.”
Wayne Smith (Ind, Hotham), chairman of the community engagement and environment committee, said they felt there were currently too many ‘grey areas’ and not enough information available, but there was nothing to stop the town council revisiting its decision down the line.
But Adam Cunard (Ind, Hatherleigh) described how the committee had expressed reservations about the size and scale of the turbines, proximity to the shore at Bognor and concerns about coastal erosion of the seabed.
By a narrow margin, the town council agreed not to support the Rampion 2 project ‘at this time’ so as to leave the door ‘open slightly’ in the words of Sandra Daniells (Ind, Pevensey).
To find out more visit Rampion’s website.
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 Contributions |
 (via Stripe) |
 (via Paypal) |
Share:
[ Short URL: https://wind-watch.org/news/?p=99890 ]
