WIND TURBINE PUBLIC CONSULTATION 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 [...]

RURAL DIVERSIFICATION Rural diversification can come in many forms. Some farmers may want to explore alternative agricultural activities such as rearing rare breeds or unusual livestock, growing specialist crops, or perhaps investing in new technologies such as renewable energy in the form of wind farms.Others farmers are looking to non-agricultural sectors. According to [...]

DUNLEYFORD FARM NEW AGRICULTURAL WORKER’S DWELLING A controversial eight-year long battle by a Lanchester farming couple to transform their farming business has been won after revised plans got the green light. The approval will see ambitions by local farmer Tony White and his wife Norma to have a permeant residential dwelling on [...]

WIND TURBINE AT LONGFRAMLINGTON PROJECT DESCRIPTION Hedley Planning Services has secured approval for a new wind turbine to be erected on land to the north east of Longframlington as part of a scheme by land owners Mr and Mrs Ness to generate enough energy to power their own home and reduce their [...]