Update received from E.ON re Corriemoillie Wind Farm proposal:
People should know that they have until the 22nd of November to respond to the new-and-hopefully-improved application for Corriemoillie Wind Farm. I would urge people to consider the changes that we have achieved:
1) People that came to our 2009 public exhibition commented on the length of our access track. We have improved upon this design by committing to sharing the access track with the adjacent consented Lochluichart Wind Farm. This eliminates the need to construct miles of track thus reducing the impact on the community and ecology;
2) The site infrastructure has been consolidated (construction compound, laydown area and wind farm control building) to minimise the impact on the environment;
3) More peat information has been obtained so that the design could be fine tuned to avoid disturbing peat where possible;
4) Three turbines were shifted to minimise the visibility from the local Corriemoillie community; and
Although it is not material to planning – E.ON would like to make the public aware that we are in negotiations with Highland Council for the community benefit fund and we have already agreed to, at least, match the scale of fund that Lochluichart Wind Farm has promised. Therefore the fund would be based on £2.75k per installed megawatt instead of £2.5k (our original offer).
We would also like to acknowledge the efforts of the Garve and District Community Council who will seek to understand the views of their community members. We know that this is not an easy task! But we do appreciate their work and want to thank people in advance for their careful consideration of our proposal.
Matilda Urie
Project Developer
E.ON, Climate and Renewables
Email: matilda.urie@eon-uk.com
02476 183067
07525 240811
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