News Elsewhere contains mainly articles we have permission to republish from Views of Scotland and Country Guardian. You can learn more about these organisations by visiting: http://www.countryguardian.net/ and http://www.viewsofscotland.org/. Occasionally we will also post news from elsewhere on the web.
The Scottish Government says, “Conditions imposed on Section 36 consent/the approval of deemed planning permission can enable many development proposals to proceed where it would otherwise have been necessary to refuse the application.”Many of us know, to our cost, that planning conditions are meaningless unless they’re enforced and local authorities Read more
Plans for a wind farm near Loch Ryan in the south-west corner of Scotland have been submitted to the Scottish government.Developer Wind Estate wants to build seven turbines up to 200m (650ft) high about three miles (5km) north-east of Cairnryan.The site – immediately north of the Penwhirn reservoir – would Read more
The Government has privately admitted Ed Miliband’s wind turbines and solar farms are bad for the environment. Astonishingly, it shows for the first time that Labour realise the rush for Net Zero will come at the expense of the environment, but are pushing ahead anyway. https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15824193/Ed-Milibands-wind-turbines-social-panels-bad-environment-Government-privately-admits.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawR2Uh5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeBE63DqXfSriqqOEAWuhntTM01zvHudw011axNkHWhk4mb4YLyOP_hGGxodg_aem_vyAjacPVpwqU-VMS3QQrJw
SAS will submit the following at next month’s DPEA Stakeholder Forum. We will update this post if we receive more issues to raise before the deadline of 18 May. The DPEA uses the Objective Connect (“OC”) platform for the lodging of documents in appeals and inquiries. Many users find the Read more
A seven and a half minute video from Dick Bowdler There’s been a lot of talk recently about the dangers of health from wind turbines, probably because of a number of recently published papers.
Labour is to ban new oil and gas fields in Britain, making it far harder for any future government to reopen the North Sea.A legal prohibition on new drilling will be included in the energy independence bill, part of the raft of new legislation set out by the King in Read more
A note from Paul Swift about his appeal. The “Grounds of Appeal” has been lodged today with the court. This will be expanded upon more fully in the Note of Argument due on 30 June and ahead of the procedural hearing on 14 July (if a procedural hearing is required). Read more
Rogart Community Council has submitted a written complaint to the local authority in relation to alleged breaches of planning conditions by Energiekontor, developers of the Lairg II Wind Farm. It is claimed that Energiekontor has failed to liaise with the community over the wind farm as required under sections 13 Read more