The joint public inquiry, with the Chiplow wind farm, ended on 22 February 2012
The
proposed Jack’s Lane Wind Farm is situated in the centre of the villages of
South Creake, North Creake, Stanhoe and Syderstone in the County of Norfolk, UK
(OS Grid Ref: TF 827 355).
The current proposal announced in March 2010 is
for six 2.3MW turbines on Barwick Hall Farm.
The original proposal was for thirty such turbines on both Barwick Hall
Farm and Bluestone Farm. However the owner
of Bluestone Farm (Miss Jean Papworth of Bishops Stortford) has not yet given
her permission for the turbines on her land and so the power company, Renewable
Energy Systems (RES), is going ahead initially with just the six turbines on
Barwick Hall Farm, where the farmer (Mr Melton Harrold) has given his
permission. RES intend to submit their
planning application for the six turbine wind farm in August 2010.
With three wind farms proposed in the
neighbouring villages of South Creake (Jack’s Lane), Syderstone (Chiplow Wind Farm)
and Docking (Fring Wind Farm) there is something of a planning race going. Under English planning law the first
planning application received would not have to consider the cumulative impact
of the other two. In Scotland the
cumulative impact of all three would have to be considered together. This may explain why RES is not prepared to
wait for the owner of Bluestone Farm to make up her mind. RES can then come back later with plans to
extend their wind farm back to its original size.
These turbines will be huge, measuring to a
height 127 metres (412 feet) at the blade tip, with a rotor diameter of 93
metres (303 feet). If you click on this
picture you will see a recent photograph of a CAPE
committee member standing in front of a slightly smaller turbine at North
Pickenham wind farm. She is the dark
spec at the foot of the turbine tower.
You may need to enlarge that part of the photograph to see her. This height is similar to some of the office
blocks at Canary Wharf. The
circumference of the rotor blades, even on the smaller 100 metre (325 feet)
turbines proposed for the Syderstone (Chiplow) site, is so large that you could
contain a jumbo jet within it, see diagram. The turbines proposed for Jack’s Lane are
about 30% larger than this.
Taken together these three wind farms would be
one of the largest on-shore wind turbine clusters in England. They are all situated in the middle of the
feeding grounds for the hundred thousand pink foot geese which over winter
along the Norfolk coast. As the low
flying geese approach their inland feeding grounds these wind farms will
present a hazard six miles wide and over a mile deep.
Click on the links below for more information:
Geese at Jacks Lane A 12 minute film of the geese at the
Jacks Lane wind farm site in 2010
Current Turbine Map Shows the position of the six turbines
proposed for now (scroll down the map for the red dots)
Site Plan Shows detailed site
layout (3Mb)
Original Turbine Map Shows the positions of the 30 turbines
originally planned (and may still be so)
Location Map Shows the two farms and the
position of Jack’s Lane track, which is the boundary
News Letter Nov 2009 CAPE campaign leaflets
News Letter Mar 2010 North & South Creake Churches
News Letter Mar 2010 Stanhoe & Syderstone Churches
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