RURAL RENEWABLE ENERGY

The use of wind-generated power is nothing new. For hundreds of years, farmers have harnessed the wind’s energy to help them run their businesses.

The current challenging economic and environmental climates places ever-increasing demands on farmers and rural business owners to operate their businesses in a sustainable way and deliver competitively priced produce to the marketplace. So it’s vital that energy costs are minimised in an environmentally friendly way.

An appropriately sized wind turbine on, critically, the right site maximises use of this free, natural resource and once installed provides a long-term source of renewable energy.

Planning applications proposing wind energy development that include one or more turbines, will “not be considered acceptable” where it is not in an area noted to be suitable by the development plan. Furthermore, the NPPF also states that the proposal must also have undergone consultation and it must be shown that the proposal has the backing of the local community.

Hedley Planning Services can deliver comprehensive local community consultations, including working with Parish Councillors and Neighbourhood Plan Groups, to seek to demonstrate that wind turbine proposals do have the backing of the local community.