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Still tilting at turbines
Aug. 12th, 2013 08:03 pmThe planning application for the Dearne Head Windfarm - just 500 metres from my village, local school, church etc. and within topple distance of well-used local roads is finally to be heard by Kirklees Council Planning Committee on 22nd August. This has been hangung over our heads since 2009.
The plan fails on many counts, noise, shadow flicker, safety, opennes of greenbelt; visual amenity, heritage etc. Not only that, but it's been shoddily put together and the developers have refused to provide additional information requested by the planning department. It's obvious when you read it closely that they've got statements that are just plain wrong. For instance they've said that their noise data 'passes' the government guidelines by calculating all the measurements against the wrong background levels.
But despite all that, the councillors could still ignore their own planning officer's recommendations and give it approval. Why should they? Well, some of them are not local to the area so - hey - not their back yard, so why worry. Others are Green Party who support windpower and assume protests are from NIMBYs and will approve anything vaguely green regardless of whether it's a good application or not. Still others may have been got at by the chap in this video who just happens to have been employed by PRE, the developers. That's the scariest part.
OK, for somer reason embedding the video didn't work, but you can also see it here on our website oif it's not showing on LJ: Scroll down the page.
http://www.birdsedge.co.uk/bolt.htm:
The plan fails on many counts, noise, shadow flicker, safety, opennes of greenbelt; visual amenity, heritage etc. Not only that, but it's been shoddily put together and the developers have refused to provide additional information requested by the planning department. It's obvious when you read it closely that they've got statements that are just plain wrong. For instance they've said that their noise data 'passes' the government guidelines by calculating all the measurements against the wrong background levels.
But despite all that, the councillors could still ignore their own planning officer's recommendations and give it approval. Why should they? Well, some of them are not local to the area so - hey - not their back yard, so why worry. Others are Green Party who support windpower and assume protests are from NIMBYs and will approve anything vaguely green regardless of whether it's a good application or not. Still others may have been got at by the chap in this video who just happens to have been employed by PRE, the developers. That's the scariest part.
OK, for somer reason embedding the video didn't work, but you can also see it here on our website oif it's not showing on LJ: Scroll down the page.
http://www.birdsedge.co.uk/bolt.htm:
