these are:

Criteria considered

 will do so. County Officers are helping Allerdale Officers with their work load, and the County Council is simply being consulted (the Development Control Committee); considerable weight is attached to the county council’s opinions however.

The application will probably go before the county council’s DCR in April; and before the Allerdale Planning Committee in June/July.
The Allerdale /County officers will consider the objections and, effectively, ask the applicant whether any of the objections can be mediated/mitigated or resolved before the application comes before the Committee.

• I have read most if not all of the consultee comments on-line.  Most are against the development; however, some of the objections are not valid and material planning objections in accordance with planning law.  No matter how much the officers and councillors might agree with the various sentiments expressed unless such sentiments contain valid planning objections they will not be/cannot be taken into account.
   
  The key planning considerations are:
   
  
• The Ecology – effects on wild-life, nature, ornithology (the Scottish RSPB have found that wind farms affect some species) see for more info
  
• Effects on radar (NATS has objected, by the way), telecommunications (radio and TV), flight paths. It’s not good enough to stick two red lights on the top! And they have increased the overall height to 125m.
  
• Highways consequences, accessibility, cumulative effects of too many windfarms on infrastructure.
  
• Geological and hydrological considerations (more concrete!!... flooding!)
  
• Effects on local amenities, the night sky, environmental impact, etc.
  
• Landscape character, visual effects, visual amenity, (do the turbines fit ‘comfortably’)
  
• Cumulative effects (permission has been given for a windfarm at Flimby – after an Appeal) of more and more wind farms;
  
• The cultural heritage of the area...
  
• Archaeological considerations
  
• Noise levels (very important) but they can be abated, but what of the effect on nearby dwellings especially
  
• Shadow flicker of the blades (at certain times of the day)
   
•  65% of all wind farm appeals (nationally) ARE allowed by the Inspectors
  

 Allerdale site- scroll down to " comment on application"

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