Elected members have raised a formal objection to Community Wind Power's plans for 60 turbines at Scoop Hill
A public inquiry will be held over a proposed wind farm in Moffat after councillors objected to the plans.
The Scottish Government takes the final decision on whether or not the wind farm should go ahead, but the council is one of several key consultees – and numerous councillors are uncomfortable with the scale of the development. Councillor Slater added: “Although they could be hidden by trees, the trees will be gone. In some places, it’s spoiling our hillsides, and there are maybe too many of them.”
Mid and Upper Nithsdale Councillor Jim Dempster, chairman of the planning committee, said: “I will require that, if anyone wants to put forward an objection to Scottish ministers, the mover and seconder I guess will be going to speak at the public inquiry. Councillor Thompson tabled a motion to raise an objection to the proposed windfarm on the grounds that the development would have a “significant and adverse effect on landscape, character and visual amenity in the locality”, both on an individual and cumulative basis.
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