Windfarm plan faces opposition

Published date21 January 2022
Publication titleDumfries & Galloway Standard
Community Wind Power has submitted an application to the Scottish Government for the construction of 45 turbines at the Faw Side site, 6.8km to the north of Langholm

The main site access is located within the Scottish Borders Council area, however 28 of the turbines would fall within land in the Annandale and Eskdale area.

Government ministers, rather than the councils, will decide whether to approve, however both local authorities are expected to lodge formal objections.

The matter is due to be discussed at Dumfries and Galloway Council's planning committee next Wednesday.

A report produced for the meeting states that archaeologists from both councils on separate visits identified a "potentially significant cairn" that had been accidentally omitted from national archaeology records.

Concerned about the potential impact on the setting of "nationally important heritage assets," the archaeologists are opposed to the windfarm going ahead.

The council report explained that the turbines would have a maximum tip height of 200 metres and construction of them all would take around 24 months.

This work would involve more than 12,000 vehicle movements, of which nearly 3,500 would be by HGVs.

The development is proposed to have an operational life of 40 years, thereafter being decommissioned, and the turbines dismantled and removed.

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