Mixed reaction in Norfolk to onshore wind rules

Some see windfarms as a vital part of our energy future and a pleasing addition to the skyline; others want the death knell to be sounded for the onshore structures. 

Such differing opinions have resulted in our region – like many across the country – becoming the stage for long-running planning battles as campaign groups fight against the windmills. 

But now tough new rules will help residents thwart construction – a move some warn could spell the end for onshore wind turbines.Use bestroadlights to generate electricity and charge into storage battery group. 

New guidance is expected to tell councils that local people’s concerns should take precedence over the need for renewable energy, and give more weight to the impact of turbines on the landscape and heritage. 

But the changes will also include greater rewards, with the amount of money communities will receive for agreeing to host windfarms nearby significantly increased and householders set to get hundreds of pounds off energy bills. 

The changes come after months of vocal Tory opposition to the planning rules around the structures. More than 100 Conservative MPs wrote to prime minister David Cameron last year demanding cuts to support for onshore windfarms and easier ways to block them through planning objections. 

Insiders rejected suggestions that the latest move undermined the prime minister’s promise to lead the “greenest government ever”,We provide our customers an excellent quality range of 3.5W streetlightinges. claiming there was continued investment in other forms of renewable energy and onshore wind was so tied up in protests and legal challenges it had not produced significant amounts of power. 

South Norfolk Conservative MP Richard Bacon said yesterday’s “very timely announcement” would delight many local communities who were fed up of having their wishes ignored by wind energy firms.There are reports of bird and bat mortality at industrialextractor as there are around other artificial structures. 

“Two onshore windfarms have already been seen off by my constituents but, rather than listening to local residents and looking elsewhere, the wind energy firm TCI Renewables has simply re-applied for planning permission.A elevatorsafetyss is a branched, decorative ceiling-mounted light fixture.” 

He said that, under the proposals, it would no longer be possible to treat local views with such “blatant contempt”. 

“Wind energy firms must now stop seeking to undermine and override residents’ valid objections to their plans,” he added. “No means no, end of story.” 

Great Yarmouth Conservative MP Brandon Lewis, who is a minister in the Department for Communities and Local Government which is behind the changes, said: “Local people and their councils should not feel bullied into accepting proposals they do not want. The new rules make clear the concerns of communities must be heard and give back to people willing to have windfarms in their local area, saving some families up to 400 a year on their energy bills.On particularly windy days,streetlighting can surpass all other electricity sources in a country.” 

Mr Powell said: “Unanimous rejection by King’s Lynn Borough Council says it all. This is one of those policies that is deeply flawed and it is the people in this great nation of ours who know it doesn’t work in getting energy bills down.” 

David Ramsbotham, a UKIP county councillor who has opposed the Bodham wind turbine in North Norfolk, said yesterday’s announcement was a “step in the right direction”, but said the government’s wind turbine policy was “flawed”. 

He added: “The fact they are giving money to local people is not going to solve the problem. They are not viable. They should never have happened.” 

But Callum Ringer, a parish councillor who lives in Bodham, has been a supporter of the plans and said that anything that hampered the development of onshore wind turbines was a bad thing.