Derwydd Bach isn’t the only wind farm application at today’s Denbighshire planning meeting. There are two others. One is to increase the cohort of turbines at Nantglyn, near Dinbych, by 13. The other is for the Brenig wind farm off the B5401 west of Rhuthun and direly north north east of Llyn Brenig. Natural Power is the applicant and it wants to build 16 at up to 100m high.
Unlike at Derwydd Bach, Brenig will require clear felling. The impact assessment rather blithely comments that it accepts such a development will have a significant impact on the landscape but that under TAN8 planning guidelines, this “should be regarded as acceptable having regard to all other matters”. Because this has “a much smaller scale of effect within the much larger landscape unit”, the applicants feel the development will not be significant at a regional or county level. The report does concede that landscape changes regionally would be of a “moderate” nature.
But, “the guidance given in TAN8 *must* apply” (our emphasis).
Unlike at Derwydd Bach, Brenig will require clear felling. The impact assessment rather blithely comments that it accepts such a development will have a significant impact on the landscape but that under TAN8 planning guidelines, this “should be regarded as acceptable having regard to all other matters”. Because this has “a much smaller scale of effect within the much larger landscape unit”, the applicants feel the development will not be significant at a regional or county level. The report does concede that landscape changes regionally would be of a “moderate” nature.
But, “the guidance given in TAN8 *must* apply” (our emphasis).
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