MABRAKE – Milton Abbot, BRadstone And KElly Action group.

Please note the Planning Committee will discuss this application at its next meeting which is Tuesday 4th March 2014 at 10am.  The Agenda and full details of the Planning Application report 01243/2014 can be found on :-

http://www.westdevon.gov.uk/article/5927/Tuesday-4th-March-2014

You will be dismayed to know that the Planning Case Officer Mr Jeremy Guise has recommended conditional planning permission be granted.  This is despite the following:-

Dartmoor National Park recommending refusal.

Landscape Officer recommending resubmission with an alternative location.

English Heritage recommended refusal as the proposal currently stands

Milton Abbot Grouped Parish Council objection

Kelly Parish Meeting Objection

Mabrake Objection

Huge number of individual objections

(It is also interesting to note that the Case Officer (Mr Jeremy Guise) does not live in this area and is only on secondment to WDBC and will be in fact leaving shortly.)

I strongly recommend that as many of you who are able, attend this meeting and  show the Planning Committee the strength of our opposition to this proposal and to support our Chairman (Dr Gary Vanstone) who will be speaking on behalf of all objectors.

Dr Phillip Bratby has provided us with a line by line rebuttal to the letter received from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (See “A worrying reply from the Department of Energy and Climate Change – February 19th on this web site) and this reply has been added in full to our “Pages” section at the bottom of the right hand side in blue.

Dr. Phillip Bratby has a first class honours degree from the Imperial College of Science and Technology (London University) and a doctorate in Physics from Sheffield University.

He is a semi-retired energy consultant and the sole director of a consultancy company.

In 2008 he gave evidence to the Economics of Renewable Energy – Economic Affairs Committee of the House of Lords and was an expert witness at a Public Enquiry for the Three Moors and Bickham Moor Wind Farms.