CAMPAIGNERS have hit out at plans to build a renewable energy substation on
a historic Scottish battlefield.
The Battle of Prestonpans 1745 Heritage Trust is strongly opposing plans by
two renewable energy companies to construct a huge electric substation on
the site in East Lothian.
Executive Trustee Arran Johnston said they were shocked when the initial
plans for the site were unveiled given its status in Scotland’s history.
The ground was home to the first significant conflict in the 1745 Jacobite
Rising where Bonnie Prince Charles’s army unexpectedly defeated government
troops in the early hours of the morning on September 21.
The substation will be the only one for the project onshore and will link
to the Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm which is to be built 15-22 km off the
coast of Angus. The farms, which will have up to 213 wind turbines, will be
linked to five offshore substations.
Mr Johnston said: “We were shocked when we first heard of the proposal to
build a great big metal eyesore smack, bang in the middle of the battlefield.”
A spokeswoman for the wind farm said: “The proposed onshore site was
identified following an assessment of a variety of potential landfall and
substation locations in East Lothian.”
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