Hundreds object to “ugly industrial” windfarm scheme in the heart of the southern Highlands – Daily Record

Campaign group Save Glen Lednock pointed to 316 objections to the plan to site 19 turbines, some as high as 200m – or three times the height of the Wallace Monument – on uplands between Loch Tay and Loch Earn.

Outdoors group Mountaineering Scotland have said the massive turbines will encroach on the heartland of the southern Highlands spoiling views for miles around.

Earlier this month PKC’s planning committee voted unanimously to object to the adjacent Glentarken scheme which comprises 12 tubines each 180m in height.

Save Glen Lednock campaigner Martin Downing said this week of developer Low Carbon’s proposal: “Not a single individual has written to the Scottish Government’s Energy Consents Unit (ECU) in support of the wind farm.

“Together with the overwhelming opposition voiced at the community engagement meeting in Comrie earlier this month – and the news that Comrie Community Council has voted to object to the scheme – this provides clear evidence that Low Carbon’s ugly industrial project is not wanted here.

Four organisations and businesses have written to the ECU in support of the Glen Lednock scheme: Oxygen Conservation (an associate company of Low Carbon); Foresight Group on behalf of Fordie Estates (owner of land over which the wind farm access road would be built); BrightWind (an onshore wind power supply chain company); and Perth and Kinross Business Partnership https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/hundreds-object-ugly-industrial-windfarm-35966336?fbclid=IwY2xjawNJww1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlQ1MwFZhxd6t5BYYOJh4gXRrjJ2oIlHzMtL2KrJJA7Jir_dGb7cgLOinjil_aem_2v9JwzPvHNVnpJkU3c59lw