A £100 million windfarm on the border of Angus and Aberdeenshire will go ahead after a public inquiry ruling in favour of the controversial project.
Scottish Ministers have backed the Glendye project, north of Edzell.
The site sits on Fasque and Glendye estates, a couple of miles from Fettercairn and in the south west corner of Aberdeenshire Council’s boundary with Angus.
It covers more than 1,450 hectares of mainly grouse moor and sheep grazing.
The tip height of the turbines will be almost 150 metres.
Wind farm developer Coriolis Energy say the scheme will generate more than 100 megawatts of renewable power annually.
Hundreds of objections
But Aberdeenshire Council was against the 26-turbine bid.
In 2019, Mearns area committee councillors passed the scheme to the authority’s infrastructure committee for a formal objection to be lodged.
The council’s opposition included the potential landscape impact from viewpoints including the Cairn O’Mount and Clachnaben. The RSPB raised fears for protected species including golden and white-tailed eagles.
Four community councils in the area and the John Muir Trust also objected to the scheme.
And the public inquiry was addressed by a clan chief over concerns about the effect on its historic heartlands.
Clan Strachan commander Rob Strachan detailed a clan history stretching back to the 13th century over 40,000 acres from the River Dee to the Cairn O’Mount.
There were also more than 400 individual letters of opposition to the Glendye scheme. Read on: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/…/inquiry-approves…/
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