Against
Turbines At Chiplow
NOTICE BOARD
TODAY - WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR THE CAMPAIGN ?
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26/05/10 - PLANNING APPLICATION FOR WIND FARM
The planning application was submitted today
for 5 turbines at Chiplow. Objections
have to submitted to the Borough Council by 13 August 2010, see http://www.syderstone.com/ATAC/objectionindex.htm
25/10/09 – GOOSE
WATCH 2009
Take part in the 2009/10 winter season. Submit your pictures and video clips to the
You Tube record of geese over the three proposed local wind farm sites at www.syderstone.com/ATAC/geese2009.htm
09/10/09 – UPDATE ON THE THREE WIND FARMS
Syderstone,
5 turbines planned, called Chiplow Wind Farm, planning permission granted for
anemometer mast.
Docking, 7 turbines planned, called Fring Wind
Farm, planning permission for anemometer mast being appealed.
South Creake, 20 turbines planned,
called Jack’s Lane Wind Farm, anemometer mast erected 2005.
15/06/09 – FRING ANEMOMETER MAST
The
Borough Council refused planning permission for the anemometer mast and the
applicant launched an immediate appeal.
The closing date for further submissions to the Planning Inspectorate is
18/09/09 and a decision is awaited. It
has since emerged that the wind farm will be for seven turbines, each of
2MW. Each turbine will be 126 metres
(409 feet) high, with a blade diameter of 92 metres (299 feet).
27/04/09 – FRING ANEMOMETER MAST
The
madness continues ! A planning
application has been submitted for an anemometer mast at Fring. This is the first stage of the planning
process for yet another local wind farm.
The maps on the planning application are useless, but if you draw a
triangle from Bircham to Docking and back to Fring, the site is more or less in
the middle of that triangle. The
location of the site may seen on this aerial view ,
albeit that the red blob shown is somewhat larger than the actual diameter of
the mast and it’s guy wires (80 metres).
Details of the planning application are on the Borough
web site.
21/04/09 – SOUTH CREAKE WIND FARM
The
local newspaper, the Lynn News, has revealed plans for a massive 30 turbine
wind farm at South Creake, just three miles north of Chiplow, see full details here .
17/02/09 – ATAC JOINS EPAW
Based
in Paris, the European Platform Against Windfarms (EPAW) represents windfarm
groups from across the EU countries.
With so much of the windfarm madness being driven by the dictates of
unelected Eurocrats in Brussels and implemented by multi-national power
companies, the emergence of a pan-European pressure group is to be
applauded. Further details at http://www.epaw.org/
01/08/08 – WHERE ARE WE NOW ?
Following
their successful appeal against the local Council’s refusal, E.ON now have
planning permission for their anemometer mast.
The mast has not yet been erected, as E.ON and the Council have to agree
on the type of bird deflectors for the guyed wires and on a method for
recording bird mortalities, see appeal decision below. No planning application
for the wind farm itself has yet been submitted.
15/07/08 - APPEAL DECISION
The Inspector has upheld the power company’s appeal and granted planning permission for the anemometer mast. Although most unwelcome, this decision was not unexpected, given the narrow one sided criteria on which the appeal was conducted. The fact is that, as the power company readily acknowledges, this is the first stage of building a wind farm but all the evidence and references to the wind farm itself were deemed to be inadmissible and therefore totally ignored at the appeal hearing. The Inspector was Mr Chris Hoult. E.ON were represented by Olly Buck & Darren Cuming and the Borough Council by David Parkin & Edghan Sheils. The Inspector’s report may be viewed by clicking here (pdf file format).