Reference Files Brechfa Forest Area

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Carmarthenshire County Council - Forward Planning   UK   03/10/06   online edition
Brechfa Forest Area wind Farm Development: Arup Report including Appendix F  (web link)

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Speech from a county councillor, to the Carmarthenshire County Council Departures Committee that was held on 24th November 2005
Blaengwen wind farm speech   (.PDF file format 12.5 Kb)

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Planning applications for TWO meteorological masts in Brechfa Forest
18th January 2006

Full details of the planning applications, documents, drawings, and OS maps can be accessed by entering the application number in the relevant box and clicking "search" at....
Carmarthenshire County Council - Search Applications
At the application details web page you also have the facility to submit your comments.
The planning application numbers required are

W/12092 and W/12093

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Agenda and minutes of the Carmarthenshire County Council Departures Committee meeting regarding the Blaengwen wind farm application.   24th November 2005
agenda & minutes   (web link to CCCouncil web site)

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Carmarthenshire County Council Local Planning Policies.
Supplied to protesters by the planning office in March 2005
Carmarthen District Local Planning Policies
(file format .DOC - size 27.5 Kbytes)The policies mentioned in the above document are the ones that need to be used to object to the forthcoming "Departures Committe" before 12th October 2005, as can be seen here....Carmarthenshire County Council Public Notice
Blaengwen wind farm planning application
(Public Notice - .JPG file format 67.8 Kb)
Copyright © Carmarthen Journal 21/09/05

This is a bit of a mystery to all of us and it cannot be clearly explained to us by Carmarthenshire County Council (CCC) officials. However, it seems that the CCC now needs to argue with itself because the Planning Committee, which approved the Blaengwen wind farm planning application, actually broke the above mentioned CCC's planning policies by giving approval; so a "Departure Committee" has to be convened to check out the Planning Committee's decision.

Your support in submitting objections is greatly needed again.
It is believed that the planning officer wants comments relating to the Carmarthenshire District Local Plan's (CDLP) points, but it might be worth reiterating the original reasons for objection as well, but most importantly, it is concerns of the breaking of the CCC's Local Plans that is of prime importance. From what we are led to believe, it is the broken planning policies which will determine the decision of the "Departure Committee."

I hope this makes some sense to you because it's somewhat confusing; to say the least.

For further details, please e-mail
Brechfa Forest Energy Action Group
or
Mynydd Llansadwrn Action Group

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Agenda of the Carmarthenshire County Council's Planning Committe meeting regarding the Blaengwen wind farm application.   25th August 2005
minutes & agenda   (web link to CCCouncil web site)

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The very sad news about the proposed Blaengwen wind farm.
19/08/05 Considering the terrible news from Caroline about the Carmarthenshire planning officer's decision to recommend the Blaengwen wind farm planning application, the following information is available to be viewed and studied. The full report on the Carmarthenshire County Council's web site is extremely lengthy, so it would be advisable to save the web page to your PC's desktop to read at your leisure, off-line.
Carmarthenshire planning committee agenda for 25/08/05
(file format .DOC - size 21.5 Kbytes)
Carmarthenshire County Council planning officer's final report   (Report - web link)A detailed and lengthy report on the Carmarthenshire County Council web site.
I personally find it of interest that Ceredigion County Council had no objections subject to mitigation of any noise and micro-wave interference affecting properties in Ceredigion. Are they publicly admitting that these problems actually do exist?

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An appeal from Brechfa Forest Dear Mal
David Poulter (Carmarthenshire County Council Planning) says the Blaengwen application MAY be scheduled for the planning meeting on Thursday 25 August - site meeting in the morning including a visit over to the Blaen Bowi site [for turbine experience] and then the actual committee in the afternoon.
Can you circulate that we need letters to the Carmarthen Journal and others that councillors and Carmarthenshire residents may read referring to Blaengwen in particular and specific objections that the planning committee CAN take into account - visual impairment, etc, to - letters@carmarthenjournal.co.uk - the letters get published in ALL the Carmarthen Journal regional editions so it helps all our causes. The editor needs them really by the Friday preceding the issue, so tomorrow for the issue on 17th and Friday 19th for the 24th August issue - the day before the planning meeting. More soon
Caroline
PS - I gave David Poulter the link to the Keele report on noise/vibration.