An independent panel has been set up to carry out what Social Justice Minister Alex Neil has called a ‘game-changing’ review of Scotland’s planning system. http://www.scottishenergynews.com/scot-govt-sets-up-game-changing-review-of-planning-law/
The future of a multimillion-pound Perthshire wind farm has been left hanging in the balance after an official objection from Perth and Kinross Council. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/controversial-crossburns-wind-farm-plans-rejected-by-council-1.900638
The Scottish Government does not have the cash to take over funding a subsidy for on-shore wind farms that is being axed by Westminster, Holyrood’s energy minister has said. Fergus Ewing said the SNP government did “not have the budget in order to pay for reserved matters which are the Read more…
Plans for an eight-turbine windfarm at Greenbank Farm, Kilncadzow, have been turned down. The Hill Rig Windfarm plans attracted 165 lettters of opposition, and now cuncillors on South Lanarkshire Council’s planning committee have rejected Community Windpower’s application. Councillors accepted that the wind farm would have an unacceptable impact on people Read more…
Anti-wind farm campaigners have accused Fergus Ewing, the Scottish minister for business, energy and tourism, of jeopardising Scotland’s tourist industry after he claimed visitor numbers and turbines could ‘flourish’ together. Mr Ewing, the MSP for Inverness and Nairn, insisted that turbines were not having a ‘detrimental effect’ on tourism in Read more…
Meeting of the Parliament on 17 September 2015 http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=10088
The Report can be accessed at: http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0048/00485407.pdf