Post by jonsdigs on Nov 23, 2006 23:24:36 GMT -5
Windfarm bid goes in
By Helen Rossiter
THE company which lost a controversial battle to create the South West's biggest wind farm in West Somerset has withdrawn a planning appeal to make way for a fresh application.
Your Energy, acting for West Hinkley Windfarm, has submitted revised plans for a nine-turbine scheme on the same site, west of Hinkley Point nuclear power station.
The original application, for 12 turbines, was thrown out this week by the West Somerset Council planners last October.
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Planners and local objectors feared the wind farm would threaten a nearby bat population and compromise safety on land around the power station, both issues which Your Energy says have now been resolved.
The move to withdraw the appeal follows a decision by the Planning Inspectorate not to postpone the appeal date, scheduled for January 2007.
Richard Mardon, managing director of Your Energy, said: "We have decided to withdraw the appeal against the 12 turbine scheme in order to give our resubmitted application a chance to go through the correct process locally.
"The scheme was refused on two issues - bats and nuclear safety - but we believe we have now solved those issues and hope to get a local decision early in the New Year."
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By Helen Rossiter
THE company which lost a controversial battle to create the South West's biggest wind farm in West Somerset has withdrawn a planning appeal to make way for a fresh application.
Your Energy, acting for West Hinkley Windfarm, has submitted revised plans for a nine-turbine scheme on the same site, west of Hinkley Point nuclear power station.
The original application, for 12 turbines, was thrown out this week by the West Somerset Council planners last October.
continued...
Planners and local objectors feared the wind farm would threaten a nearby bat population and compromise safety on land around the power station, both issues which Your Energy says have now been resolved.
The move to withdraw the appeal follows a decision by the Planning Inspectorate not to postpone the appeal date, scheduled for January 2007.
Richard Mardon, managing director of Your Energy, said: "We have decided to withdraw the appeal against the 12 turbine scheme in order to give our resubmitted application a chance to go through the correct process locally.
"The scheme was refused on two issues - bats and nuclear safety - but we believe we have now solved those issues and hope to get a local decision early in the New Year."
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