The Wadlow wind farm proposal in Cambridgeshire, England has been given the go-ahead by the Secretary of State.
The proposal for 13 wind turbines was objected to by the local authority – South Cambridgeshire District Council, local residents and horse riders.
It was South Cambs’ case that this was not the ‘right location for a wind farm’ of this size. However Planning Inspector David Lavender found that the wind farm company involved; RES ‘did not need to exhaust sequentially all other better locations’ to show that the wind farm site is needed against renewable energy targets.
Objections related to wind turbines scaring horses however appear to have backfired … as Lavender concluded that horse riding seemed to be a very dangerous activity whether there were turbines there or not.
Lavender concluded that the wind farm would meet the objectives of ‘promoting sustainable development while safeguarding the quality of the local environment’.
