Anglesey council sets 2km Buffer Zone for 100m turbines.
On 24th January 2013, the council passed two ground-
- for wind turbines over 20 metres the separation distance from residential or tourism properties will be the greater of 500 metres or 20 times tip height (in metres).
- medium or large wind turbines with Anglesey’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) or within 2km will not be supported.
See the council’s Press release (link above) and the local newspaper’s article.
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Donald Trump will be launching a legal challenge "fairly soon" over the Scottish government's decision to grant planning permission for a wind farm off the Aberdeenshire coast.
The US tycoon told BBC Scotland he was going ahead with the action for the people of Scotland.
Mr Trump said he had already hired "excellent" lawyers. "They are as incensed as I am and as many people in Scotland are," he said. “We have thousands of people all over Scotland that are absolutely incensed.
The American businessman had previously said his 140-
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Jonathan Cawley, until recently the chairman of the wind industry’s trade body in Wales, is to become director of planning for the Snowdonia National Park Authority.
The appointment of Mr Cawley, who has led attempts to build a series of controversial wind farms across Britain, comes weeks after the authority announced it would formally object to plans for 80 turbines in the area around the park.
His appointment has prompted concern among residents, who fear turbines will “dominate” the landscape.
Mr Cawley, a former council planning policy manager, currently works at West Coast Energy, a developer with 14 wind farms across the UK. He was appointed as chairman of Renewable UK Cymru last May, although he has now resigned from the post.