Allerdale has now commissioned an independent landscape architect to carry out a further assessment. By next week we should know one way or the other whether this application will be going before the March Development Panel. If so, this will take place on Tuesday March 13th. Further details to follow. In the meantime, we have discovered the following:
THAT a photograph used in Stern Wind's recent Cultural Heritage assessment (and mentioned in their Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment) was obtained by trespass.
THAT Bruce Walker, who took the photgraph in question and carried out the LVIA, once successfully applied for five albeit small turbines at Westwood Nurseries, near Orton Grange, where he was the managing director. He then publicly declared that if the turbines were a success he would be keen to act as an agent selling similar ones, of Chinese manufacture, to other clients. How very fortunate for Jim Harley of Stern Wind that he found a landscape architects so blatently in favour of wind energy to carry out the landscape assessment for the Lane Head proposal. This most certainly calls into question the impartiality of the Westwood report!
THAT the Enercon turbine proposed at Boltongate has a capacity of 800kW but would be run throttled back to 500kW as it would not benefit the applicant otherwise. The reason that it would not benefit the applicant is that the feed in tariff drops if the output is above 500kW. This proves that the proposal is all about making money! I would not have thought even the green lobby would find it acceptable that an operational turbine should be throttled back and prevented from making the full contribution of which it is capable! Interestingly, Enercon no longer make a 500kW model. It's a strange choice of turbine. Square peg and round hole spring to mind!
Futher details of all the above can be seen amongst the correspondence on Allerdale's website.
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