xrayalpha
27th Mar 2010, 17:47
Hi all,
South Lanarkshire Council, in its wisdom, last year put the airfield in its local plan as a "preferred area for wind farm development".
Now it has issued a Supplementary Planning Guidance on Renewable Energy which suggests that the wind farm area boundary be moved back to where it was. Not because there is an airfield, but because they now think we have too mnay of the things around the town.
The key phrase is that a "landscape with windfarms" is in danger of becoming a "windfarm landscape".
If you would like to participate in the consultation, the links are at Strathaven Airfield - Microlight Flying, and Home of the Scottish Flying Club (http://www.strathavenairfield.co.uk/wind.html)
We suggest the paragraphs you might - perhaps even just as a tourist - want to concentrate on.
The airfield, seperately, will be submitting its own robust case for a 5km turbulence buffer zone as well as the 3km obstruction zone as laid out in our safeguarding plan.
Please refrain from any comments about the financial, economic or environmental utility of these turbines. It is not an arguement we can win - except that there may be an economic impact from the loss of tourism. (and "trial flights" are regarded as "day tourism" in the lingo!)
Many thanks,
ps. You'll see on out web site the map of where we could put two turbines, earning us up to £75k a year, if we decided instead to close the airfield. It shows you the money involved.
South Lanarkshire Council, in its wisdom, last year put the airfield in its local plan as a "preferred area for wind farm development".
Now it has issued a Supplementary Planning Guidance on Renewable Energy which suggests that the wind farm area boundary be moved back to where it was. Not because there is an airfield, but because they now think we have too mnay of the things around the town.
The key phrase is that a "landscape with windfarms" is in danger of becoming a "windfarm landscape".
If you would like to participate in the consultation, the links are at Strathaven Airfield - Microlight Flying, and Home of the Scottish Flying Club (http://www.strathavenairfield.co.uk/wind.html)
We suggest the paragraphs you might - perhaps even just as a tourist - want to concentrate on.
The airfield, seperately, will be submitting its own robust case for a 5km turbulence buffer zone as well as the 3km obstruction zone as laid out in our safeguarding plan.
Please refrain from any comments about the financial, economic or environmental utility of these turbines. It is not an arguement we can win - except that there may be an economic impact from the loss of tourism. (and "trial flights" are regarded as "day tourism" in the lingo!)
Many thanks,
ps. You'll see on out web site the map of where we could put two turbines, earning us up to £75k a year, if we decided instead to close the airfield. It shows you the money involved.