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Wind farm may lead to 'industrial wasteland'
Campaigners have warned if the latest East Riding wind farm application is granted, it could set a precedent condemning the area as an 'industrial wasteland'.
Renewable Energy Systems (RES) is seeking permission to build a nine-turbine wind farm near Roos but residents have objected.
The application will be considered by East Riding Council's planning committee.
July 28, 2009
in This is Hull and East Riding
Campaigners have warned if the latest East Riding wind farm application is granted, it could set a precedent condemning the area as an 'industrial wasteland'.
Renewable Energy Systems (RES) is seeking permission to build a nine-turbine wind farm near Roos but residents have objected.
The application will be considered by East Riding Council's planning committee on Thursday and looks set to approved, subject to the resolution of some technical issues.
But Cherie Blenkin, of South Holderness Opposes Wind Turbines (SHOWT), believes the arguments against the development are so strong that granting the application would leave no cause to object to any other industrial... [continue via Web link]
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