Government dismisses two out of three wind fam proposals
A WINDFARM at Barmoor is the only one of three to be given planning approval following a public inquiry.
Other windfarms, at Moorsyde, near Felkington, and Toft Hill, near Duddo, have both been rejected by the Government's planning inspector, Ruth MacKenzie and the secretary of state, John Denham MP.
The six-turbine windfarm at Barmoor has been approved after Mrs MacKenzie and John Denham found that "despite major landscape effects at close quarters, the containment of the site by hills and woodland would prevent the significant effects of the proposal spreading more than about 1km from the site."
Mr Denham also agreed with the inspector in that although the setting of Ford Moss Colliery, a scheduled ancient monument, would be changed by the windfarm, it was not to an 'unacceptable degree.'
The seven turbine scheme at Moorsyde was rejected on the grounds of the effect of the proposed scheme on the Cheviots and the noise from the turbines.
TheToft Hill proposal, for seven turbines was rejected on the basis on the adverse effects it would have on the Duddo stone circle.
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