Robert Fairburn
PLANS for an eight turbine wind farm have been rejected by councillors in
the Scottish Borders.
Developers wanted to build the 110 yard high turbines near Romanno Bridge
in Peeblesshire.
Stevenson Hill Wind Energy, on behalf of West Coast Energy, also applied to
construct a new access road from the A701 Edinburgh to Moffat road.
The application drew 125 letters of objection and one of support.
They wanted to build the turbines along the ridges of the peaks of Green
Knows, Hag Law and Wether Law.
At a meeting in Newtown St Boswells members of the Scottish Borders
Council’s planning applications committee raised concerns about its visual
impact on the landscape and neighbouring communities.
Archaeologists had also claimed it would cause unacceptable harm to four
scheduled monuments of national importance and an historic landscape.
Planning officials advised councillors to reject the scheme on landscape
impact and potential noise nuisance grounds.
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