Two wind farms close to ancient monuments – Berwickshire News

Plans for two wind farms near Duns, with a joint total of 33 turbines all
over 130m tall, have not gone down well with Historic Scotland.

Both potential wind farms are at early stages; developers haven’t yet
submitted planning applications but have requested a scoping opinion,
giving Scottish Borders Council and statutory bodies the chance to comment
on the plans.

Commenting on the proposed wind farms at Inch Moor (19, 130m turbines) and
Black Rig (14, 132m turbines), Historic Scotland expressed: “strong
concerns about the impact of the developments at this location on two
scheduled monuments which we consider raise issues of national significance.

“We consider that Dirrington Law scheduled monuments have an extremely
important setting which is very susceptible to change. We consider the
current proposal adversely affects the setting of the scheduled monuments
and raises issues of national signficance.

“Consequently if this were to come forward as a planning application,
Historic Scotland would object to the application.”

Black Rig wind farm developers, RES UK Ltd, were invited to attend this
month’s Duns Community Council meeting.