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No Exemption From Planing For Your Turbine

Postby jimmy » Fri May 22, 2009 6:52 pm
A Family in the north east has been instructed to take down their 6kW proven by the county council. They had to make a planning application for retention and were asked to produce both an Archaeological impact report and an Visual Impact study which both fell in their favour. But An Bórd Pleanála upheld the council's decision on the grounds that the installation interfered with the character of the landscape and impacted on the archeology of the area.

The Family have asked the Minister John Gormley green party the following questions:

This turbine was erected in good faith based strictly on the guidelines issued by your Department. What if anything might I have done to have avoided or anticipated the debacle that has ensued?

Are these small turbines exempt from planning or are they not?

How could I possibly have anticipated a demand for a planning applcation?

What are other environmentally aware people supposed to do if they wish to place a wind turbine?

Is the same thing going to happen to others?

Are small wind turbines going to be limited to valleys rather than hill tops?

Should your Department issue a serious clarification on the now apparent non-exemption status of small turbines?

Can the Minister help in my particular situation? Having acted entirely in good faith in this matter - I have hit serious problems.

I find it unacceptable to be told that these turbines are permitted and ‘de-regulated’ and then be hit with a ruling to the opposite. Having acted within the law with only good will and intent, there must be a remedy in which my turbine can be retained. I have offered to paint it or even relocate it on the site.

If it is a fact that other aspects of the planning regulations take precedance over the 2007 provisions then it makes them meaningless. The public need to be formally told that planning permission is required for all small wind turbines. What other conclusion can be drawn having fallen victim to the process.

The ‘exemption’, as it stands would appear to be a nonsense. I understood my development was exempt. When is an ‘exemption’ actually something that one can act on?

The Government should issue a serious clarification on the now apparent non-exemption status of small turbines?


Remember this when you are voting and ask them on the doorstep what other lies they told us.

jimmy

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Re: No Exemption From Planing For Your Turbine

Postby niall » Fri May 22, 2009 10:25 pm
unbeliveable....putting up a 6kw machine and then having to take it down makes very depressing reading ........as for the character of the landscape arguement ? ... classic ,.. the "be-grudgers" , "i,ve got a chip on my shoulder" ,"i cant get on with my neibhour" type objectioners will have a field day with that old chesnut .......

also the exemption was supposed to apply to all "green renewables" solar , hydro , bio gas etc where does that leave all them ?

seems as if its one rule for one person another for someone else


we have a badly built , half finished , abandoned housing development right in the middle of the village ,another one just outside ...basically 2 piles of rubbish
and does the council care ? .. (......to quote podge and rodge ..... " if i could care less ..i would ".....)

as for the greens ..(personally i voted for one last time around)... they,ve evolved into a nice incoherent mess , and in such a short time ..very impressive .. ( i,m really looking foreward to meeting another one canvassing for a vote.. .)...

niall

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