It was announced at the beginning of the meeting that Trudi Craggs is now Chief Reporter along with Scott Ferrie, with Robert Seaton taking over Trudi’s position as Assistant Chief Reporter Over the past year DPEA has seen a Read more
A bid for a new Berwickshire windfarm amounts to ‘cultural vandalism’ against three Iron Age hillforts, councillors have determined. Members of the council’s Planning and Building Standards Committee have agreed to formally object to the Energy Consents Unit over a Read more
CAMPAIGNERS in the Borders have welcomed a decision to object to repowering a windfarm which would incorporate some turbines the height of 46 double decker buses stacked on top of each other. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/plan-repower-windfarm-turbines-high-182959373.html
A legal challenge is being made to the Scottish government’s refusal of a wind farm that developers said would have represented a £1bn investment. CWP Energy wants to build 60 turbines up to 250m (820ft) tall at Scoop Hill, a Read more
A Scottish government policy designed to encourage datacentres to build in Scotland could lead to a massive volume of carbon emissions being ignored, according to an analysis by a Scottish charity. “Green datacentres” are at the heart of Scotland’s ambitions Read more
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 Read more
This could potentially affect Scotland we are told as the Planning & Infrastructure Act affected us. The Electricity Act, used for OHL and Onshore WF is a UK act and affects Scotland.We’ll have to wait and see. Nothing definite yet. Read more
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 Read more