Calling all SAS Supporters! We need your help please. As you know, our Petition to the Scottish Parliament is under consideration by the Scottish Government at the moment and a response is expected by 17 April. Last week, we received news of a change to the process for managing petitions. […]
A pressure group that campaigns against large-scale wind farms is calling for help from the public following a change in the way petitions to the Scottish Parliament are managed. Scotland Against Spin (SAS) lodged a petition in March 2021 seeking stronger powers for communities to influence planning decisions relating to […]
Hopes that communities can have a greater say in major wind farm developments affecting their area have been lifted by a parliamentary committee’s response to a petition on the issue. It asks the Scottish Government to look at ways of ensuring that “demonstration of local support is a key material […]
This is very encouraging news on our Petition . The Committee seem supportive. https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/citizen-participation-and-public-petitions-committee/correspondence/2022/pe1864/convtominpfpcw_pe1864.pdf
We hope you all managed to watch the Hearing of the SAS Petition by the Scottish Parliament Petitions’ Committee this morning. The Members of the Committee took all the responses from consultees and from Aileen (our Petitioner) very seriously and we were very encouraged by their response. Fergus Ewing’s apart. […]
Can we remind everyone that our Petition PE1864: Increase the ability of communities to influence planning decisions for onshore windfarms will be discussed for the fourth time tomorrow morning at 9.30am by the Scottish Parliament Petitions Committee. You can watch the proceedings live at https://www.scottishparliament.tv/
We’ve just been informed that the SAS petition will receive its fourth Hearing by the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee at its meeting on 18 January 2023. https://www.parliament.scot/…/pe1864-increase-the…
SAS has made the following submission to our Petition to the Scottish Parliament: PE1864: Increase the ability of communities to influence planning decisions for onshore windfarms in response to the recent submission from the Minister for Public Finance, Planning and Community Wealth. Legislative competence SAS is grateful to the Minister for […]