Weather mast verdict deferred - Yorkshire Post

Weather mast verdict deferred - Yorkshire Post: "Weather mast verdict deferred



« Previous « PreviousNext » Next »View GalleryPublished Date: 13 March 2008
By Fiona Evans
councillors in Craven have put on hold an attempt to erect a 60 metres tall weather mast by a company which wants to build a wind farm in a beauty spot.

German company, EnergieKontor UK Ltd, has earmarked land at Brightenber Hill, about 10km from Skipton, to create a renewable energy wind farm consisting of five turbines which would each be 121 metres tall but has yet to submit a formal planning application to Craven District Council.

In advance of the application, which is likely to be some time between April and June, the company applied to the council's planning committee to erect a 60-metre meteorological mast on farmland next to Brightenber Hill in a Special Landscape Area to measure wind speed and direction.

Critics of the wind farm itself, which would be a 10 megawatts power station, won a small reprieve when the committee deferred a decision on the mast to allow a visit to the site during its next meeting in April."