Aviation safeguarding lights on turbines – video
Aviation safeguarding lights just coming on at twilight. Neilston and Middleton wind farms in East Renfrewshire.
Scaled down plans for wind farm near Grantown to be submitted later in 2021 – Strathspey and Badenoch Herald
Scaled down plans for wind farm near Grantown to be submitted later in 2021 Revised plans for a wind farm near Grantown are expected to be lodged with Scottish Ministers towards the end of this year, the developers have said. Swedish stated-owned energy giant Vattenfall has reduced the number of Read more…
Polquhairn Wind Farm – application to raise tip heights
East Ayrshire Council Please note that no documents are available at the moment but keep checking! 21/0092/PP | Erection of up to nine wind turbines of up to a maximum tip height of 145 metres, and associated infrastructure. | Polquhairn Wind Farm B7046 From Sinclairston To U728 Glenconner Skares Read more…
River City Star on the joy Whitelee Windfarm – Herald
Don’t all laugh at once! LEAH MACRAE, ACTOR River City star Leah MacRae loves Whitelee Windfarm How often do you visit? At least once a week. Sometimes more. But I try not to go too often because I want it to stay special. How did you discover it? Where my Read more…
Scotsman letters (3)
3 good letters in the Scotsman today. A lot of wind? Lorna Slater, co-leader of the Scottish Greens and an engineer with Orbital Marine Power, writes as though Scotland, with 0.15 of global emissions, can solve the world’s climate problems (Perspective, 3 April). She says that 82 per cent of Read more…
20-turbine project near New Cumnock gets the go-ahead – Cumnock Chronicle
Fred Olsen Renewables has welcomed the approval by Scottish Ministers of its application to develop Windy Standard III Wind Farm in Dumfries and Galloway. The firm has been involved with the wind farm, located North East of Carsphairn and 10km south of New Cumnock, since 1996. It currently consists of Read more…
Decision taken on ‘giant windfarm’ plan after surprise local plan ‘contraventions’ revealed to meeting – Largs and Millport News
A PLAN to erect a string of 150m high wind turbines between Largs and Skelmorlie has been rejected by council planners – after a meeting heard it breached TEN policies in the local development plan. Rigghill Windfarm Ltd were looking to build 10 wind turbines with a maximum blade tip Read more…
Watch our video: A Reporter’s Guide to Planning – Planning Democracy
The Planning Democracy Workshop attended by SAS members last week, can now be viewed on their website. It included two presentations from Senior Reporter, Dan Jackman +Q&As: Appeals and Local and National Development Plans. Dan explained both processes and the Reporter’s role. https://www.planningdemocracy.org.uk/2021/a-reporters-guide-to-planning/