MABRAKE – Milton Abbot, BRadstone And KElly Action group.

English Heritage have now submitted an eight page letter to WDBC picking up the point made by Mabrake that the recent applications for Wind Turbines at the Lifton Farm Shop, Wortham Farm and the ones at Launceston cannot be considered in isolation as in a rural context they are replacing church towers as the dominant man-made landscape feature.

The go further in their letter by suggesting it is premature to consider this application until WDBC has addressed the strategic policy of wind turbine placement in general, a recommendation that Mabrake has been putting forward for some time.

To see the full letter, log on to the WDBC web site and follow 00063/2013 under Planning/Associated Documents and read document 287500 dated Friday April 19th 2013.

I am sure you will all be pleased to know that Cllr Donald Horn (Ward Member for Thrushell) has “called in” the Lifton Farm Shop Application 00063/2013 for determination by the P&L Committee.  He states that “this is contentious locally” with support both for and against.

To see the full letter, log on to the WDBC web site and follow 00063/2013 under planning, associated documents and read document 287501 dated Friday April 19th 2013.

We will keep you advised when a date for this Committee meeting is set by WDBC.

This application may be found under “Land east of Hurdon Road, Launceston” and the application number is PA12/12067.  Again, it is for a 500kW 77m high wind Turbine.  Already there are some 46 comments many of them referring to the closeness (approx. 500m) to the nearby Housing Estate.

Determination date is shown as 25th March but many comments are much more recent than that so it appears it may not be too late to enter your submission.

As we feared more farmers are now getting in on the act:-

WDBC Planning Application No: 00300/2013 500kW 77m high Wind Turbine at Wortham Farm, just north of Lifton near the A30 dual carriageway.

Submission cut off date at present is 2nd May 2013