\n They will be told that the proposal was refused planning permission earlier this month.\n <\/p>\n
\n In October 2024, plans by German renewable energy giant RWE went live.\n <\/p>\n
\n RWE wanted to build up to six wind turbines with a maximum height of 200 metres on land between Abertillery and Abersychan.\n <\/p>\n
\n The site includes parts of Mynydd James and Gwastad Common and straddles the local authority boundaries of Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen county borough councils.\n <\/p>\n
\n The proposal was classed as a\u00a0Development of National Significance (DNS) application which means that it is\u00a0processed by Welsh Government Planning Inspectors at PEDW (Planning and Environment Decisions Wales).\n <\/p>\n
\n With this type of application \u00a0Blaenau Gwent is a consultee rather than a decision maker.\n <\/p>\n
\n As part of the process, Blaenau Gwent submitted a Local Impact Report (LIR) to PEDW in March last year and county planners\u00a0said that they believe the windfarm would have a \u201cnegative\u201d effect on the county borough.\n <\/p>\n
\n The decision by planning inspector Iwan Lloyd was published on March 6.\n <\/p>\n
\n In total Mr Lloyd refused the wind turbine application and two applications to de-register common land at the site.\n <\/p>\n
\n Mr Lloyd said: \u00a0\u201cThe proposal would have unacceptable adverse impacts on the setting of the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe harm would be of considerable weight because the development would harm the special qualities of the BBNP and thereby fail to accord with its statutory purpose, to conserve or enhance the natural beauty of the national park and would diminish the public\u2019s enjoyment of this designation.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe combination of this proposal and other consented wind farm development in the area would increase inter-visibility of large-scale wind farms within the national park setting leading to a deterioration in the appreciation and experience of the landscape and visual amenity of the BBNP and its special qualities.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe proposal would also adversely and unacceptably impact on local landscape designations within Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Mr Lloyd added that the unacceptable adverse impacts would also impact cultural\u00a0heritage assets which include\u00a0the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage site.\n <\/p>\n
\n RWE say that the wind farm had the potential to generate power equivalent to the needs of approximately 50,000 homes.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They will be told that the proposal was refused planning permission earlier this month. In October 2024, plans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-494487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}