Mike Maud, MAG's acting chairman, said: "However late in the day, we would welcome the opportunity to finally enter into a dialogue with this company.
"MAG has repeatedly attempted to engage with both developers and strategic planners to examine t
he scale of development that this small and populated area could realistically and sensibly tolerate without severely damaging the landscape, the local economy and living conditions nearby."
Despite promises of discussions from the re-structured company, however, Mr Maud indicated that he is expecting little from Your Energy, who have recently had planning applications refused in Lincolnshire, Dorset and Cambridgeshire.
He pointed out: "In reality all that has changed is that the company has got rid of the directors responsible for a string of failed proposals and the financiers have taken control."
In last week's Advertiser, Mr Mardon said Your Energy was now ready to press ahead with the £30 million Moorsyde development and envisaged no changes to its current application.
The proposed site, which measures around 300 acres, lies within a large area south and west of Berwick identified for potential wind farm development of 25 turbines or less.
However, Your Energy's statement that there are no environmental concerns and that impact on the surrounding landscape will be minimal have been met with a local outcry.
Mr Maud said: "MAG has already made strong representations to the planning authority about the very poor quality of the Moorsyde application. The Environmental Impact Assessment contains major inaccuracies throughout, its environmental surveys do not meet scoping guidelines and there is a blatant attempt to misrepresent the visual impact of the proposal in the selection of viewpoints and in visual representations."
Northumberland County Council has advised Berwick Borough Council that 'planning permission should not be granted unless it has been demonstrated that the scale of the development proposed and its proximity to nearby dwellings would not result in significant and adverse impacts arising in terms of its effect on landscape character and capacity, visual amenity and living conditions nearby'.
"Although Mr Mardon suggests that there are probably no more than 50 houses in close proximity that would be affected, there are in fact 219 dwellings, two inns and several tourist businesses within 2.5km of the turbines," explained Mr Maud. "Your Energy's own Environmental Statement, which accompanies the planning application, states that within 3km the turbine array will be visually 'dominant' and will have a 'major' impact on households."
Objectors have warned that because most of the site is underlain by old mine workings several turbines are at risk of subsidence or instability.
Mr Maud said: "It is hard to imagine a more inappropriate site for a development of this kind.
"On its own the Moorsyde development would represent a scheme of unprecedented proportions in a sensitive, populated and very visible lowland area.
"The reality is that Moorsyde is now one of three proposals being actively worked up on sites almost adjacent to each other, by developers who are not only unwilling to engage with the local population, but will not even speak to each other.
"Somehow, sanity needs to be restored to this situation to allow for a proper assessment of exactly what contribution this area can realistically make to the renewable energy agenda."
