Secret Scoop Hill chat – DnG online

SCOOP Hill Windfarm is back on the council’s agenda next week for reasons unknown, with plans to exclude the public from the meeting.The controversial 60-turbine scheme and a battery energy system proposed by Community Windpower Ltd (CWL), five kilometres south-east of Moffat, went before a Scottish Government public enquiry in December 2024.It was then officially rejected by officials from the Scottish Government’s Energy Consensus Unit in February, with the reporter citing landscape and visual effects; the impact on Eskdalemuir Seismological Recording Station and Array; net economic impact, including effects on tourism and the benefits of the proposed development as some of the reasons for its refusal.However, now it’s back on the agenda for Dumfries and Galloway Council’s planning committee meeting next Thursday, with a report by the assistant director of governance and human resources.But interested residents may not be able to hear its contents as there is a proposal to exclude the public from the meeting immediately prior to the report being discussed. https://dng24.co.uk/secret-scoop-hill-chat/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSALF1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETA0QjExV0ZZSkxCY0pienNxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHn4glFFCSlsHPLWopPydy5wqvu4S3wF3eR850XvpJ_jyft38fgwT2KQw1AZp_aem_IOsfo5D8uCQpi9SuU5OQ1g