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< Back to all project news 04 Feb 2009 - Low Spinney Broadview shares its wind farm plans with local residents at Gilmorton Villiage Hall

Yesterday (Tuesday, February 3rd), Broadview Energy hosted an exhibition of its final plans for a wind farm of four turbines to be located near the villages of Ashby Magna, Gilmorton, and Dunton Bassett. The exhibition at Gilmorton Village Hall was attended by over 90 people who were able to see the final layout of the scheme and photomontages of the wind farm, showing how the turbines would look against the local landscape. They also had the chance to meet members of the Broadview team and talk to some of the specialist consultants who have undertaken the environmental studies.

The exhibition was held before Broadview Energy submits a planning application to Harborough Council, the local planning authority.

Jeffrey Corrigan, Managing Director of Broadview Energy, said: “The exhibition gave people an opportunity to see our proposed plan before we submit a planning application to Harborough Council, which will be open for public consultation. We have been assessing the site for nearly two years, investigating a range of different technical and environmental issues, and this work confirms that the Low Spinney site is a suitable site for a small wind farm.

“We have been heartened by the local support that has been expressed towards the wind farm but we accept that some members of the local community object. As we have said previously, wind generation is a clean and economic source of power generation, our plans adhere to the planning guidelines that exist for renewable energy and the wind farm will contribute to Leicestershire’s renewable energy target.”

Each turbine on the Low Spinney site would have a generation capacity of between 2-3MW, and so the farm will produce green, renewable energy for about 5,000 households. It will also help contribute to meeting Leicestershire’s renewable energy target of 33MW by 2010.

Local residents were notified of the exhibition via a leaflet delivered to their homes; it can be downloaded from the Low Spinney wind farm website, www.lowspinneywindfarm.co.uk. A previous exhibition was held at Gilmorton Village Hall in October 2008.

 

For media enquires, please contact:

Lisa Ross at Broadview Energy Limited (lross@broadviewenergy.com / 020 8487 9150)

 

 

Notes to editors:

• Additional information on the Low Spinney wind farm project can be found at www.broadviewenergy.com or www.lowspinneywindfarm.co.uk.
• Broadview Energy Limited develops wind energy projects in the United Kingdom that will generate clean, sustainable energy. Broadview takes projects from site identification, through the planning process, to construction and ultimately operation. The company focuses on small projects, typically between two and ten turbines. It currently has a number of projects under various stages of development throughout the United Kingdom.
• The Government has a target of 15% of all the electricity produced in this country should be from renewable sources by 2015; currently the figure sits at approximately 5%.