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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barred Wobbler" data-source="post: 3302485" data-attributes="member: 69394">They've just started a new 13 turbine project down the road from me at Widdrington last month. It's just inland from the Druridge Bay reserves. The planning permissions have been in place since about 2011 or 2012, so they'll still get the subsidies. It was originally two developments, but in August the developer of the 4 turbine Sisters projuect took over the land and permission of the adjacent 9 turbine Maidens Hall project. Work started in September.The wind maps show that this part of the Northumberland coast has wind speeds of average to below average, so it's not as if they've chosen a particularly windy spot for their money makers.More on the local position here. <a href="http://www.windbyte.co.uk/northumberland.html#northumberlandmap" target="_blank">http://www.windbyte.co.uk/northumberland.html#northumberlandmap</a>There's some interesting stuff if you scroll through.One example, giving some indication of the way the county's planners have been treating wind applications concerns a project taht was refused at appeal. 'The Heatherslaw case adds to the growing list of turbines that had been recommended for approval by NCC planning officers which have been refused by the planning committee and subsequently seen the refusal upheld at appeal, citing the very impacts that planning officers had downplayed or dismissed.'There was spell three to four years ago when they were granting permissions seemingly at the drop of a hat with some very strange reasoning. The Maiden's Hall project is one that springs to mind.</blockquote>

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