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3 August 2010

After carefully reviewing plans for our proposed West Ancroft wind farm following a recent public inquiry into nearby wind farm proposals, we have decided to withdraw our current planning application for an eight turbine scheme. We are now looking at the possibility of redesigning the project as a smaller development.

April 2009

In April 2009 we submitted a planning application to construct an exciting new wind farm located around 6.5 kilometres south of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

The proposed wind farm would be made up of 8 turbines with a maximum tip height of 115m high and will have a generation capacity of around 18MW.

Where will the wind farm be located?

The proposed West Ancroft wind farm is to be located approximately 6.5km south of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

The site itself would occupy approximately 400ha, but only a small percentage of this land would be occupied by the wind turbines and access tracks (approximately 20ha). The remaining land would be unaffected and could continue to be managed agricultural land.

Description of the proposed scheme

The turbines are likely to be coloured light grey or white with a semi-matt finish to reduce their contrast with the background sky and minimise reflections. The turbines would be uniform in colour and will not contain any company logo.

The onsite access track layout has been designed to utilise existing agricultural tracks where possible and where new sections of access track are required these have been designed to run alongside field boundaries.