Proposed Wind Farm ar Bullington Cross

I’ve just received a letter from Basingstoke local authority to confirm that the appeal application has been withdrawn and the matter at # 11 is now finished.

I’ve written to them on behalf of all who objected, to thank them for their transparent and honest evaluation of this unwanted and hazardous scheme.

Wind farms are a waste of time and money until large scale storage technologies come to fruition anyway.

Update to the Bullington Cross proposed planning appeal during October next by energy giant, EDF.

I’ve just had an e-mail from the opposition organisers. They confirm that there will be no appeal by EDF. They have withdrwn their submissions and application for the appeal process. There will be no windfarm in this area of outstanding beauty and no intrusive hazards to threaten the unwary aviator in poor visibility.

The wind farms are really horrendous.

I wonder how come engineers never came up with a more clever system than the primitive ” Ol Dutch Wind Mill ” kinda redevelopement to harness the wind ?

Update on the Wind Farms.

As more than half expected, EDF the producers of energy at the expense of taxpayers subsidies, have lodged an appeal against the denial of their planning application to build 14 turbines at Bullingdon Cross, Hampshire.

You may recall that the location of the proposed site has serious safety implications for aircraft transitting either East/West; (Popham/Thruxton/Chilbolton) or North/South; (Brize/Oxford/Abingdon/Old Sarum/Southampton/Bournemouth, especially in conditions of poor visibility. The routes described are well used all year round by rotary as well as fixed wing.

If you have already made a submission to the planning hearing and now wish to change or amplify your contribution, you are invited to do so via:

www.planningportal.gov.uk/pcs OR by email to:

[email]leanne.palmer@pins.gsi.gov.uk[/email]

It might be a good idea to mention the volume of accumulated evidence that these turbines do not deliver and without subsidies simply would not exist.

I should have added that the cutoff date for submissions is the 9th March next.

Phew ! That could have been close.

I’ve just heard an unsubstantiated rumour that the owner of Popham had commented that if the planning application for the wind farms had succeeded, Popham would have been closed !

… the concerted fury of the people who live in Farnborough would have been a powerful lever.

The average NIMBY would, if well-informed, probably likes the idea of CAS since it would mean less of us random, undisciplined amateur rich kids going round and round in circles drowning out the relaxing, musical sounds of their ride-on lawnmowers and so we can spy on his wife, topless sunbathing.

The best solution at Farnborough and Southend would be to start the “First step to a second Heathrow” hare running.

Mind you the good people of Essex might well be swayed by the chance to get to Ibiza or Benidorm faster and without putting too many miles on their XR3s

Moggy

Further to the Bullington Cross, Hampshre wind farm saga. I’ve just received a full explanation of the planning rejection. It is an attachment to an e-mail.

If anyone would like a copy – it makes for interesting reading – please e-mail me at: [email]jo.ma@tiscali.co.uk[/email]

My interpretation is that the planning application was defeated primarily by aviation based objections.

Great news for all you GA pilots. Every planning application for these inefficient monstrous white elephants is to be applauded loudly!;)

Great news indeed, although I’m not a GA pilot!

By the way, regarding Charlie’s ‘white elephants’ – why are they all white?
Has anybody seen one in any other colour? :confused:

TAG and Farnborough ? Someone needs to organise some funding and instruct an aviation planning professional who has a personal interest in aviation.

I would have thought that the concerted fury of the people who live in Farnborough would have been a powerful lever.

That’s good news now if we could just stop TAG’s Farnborough airspace grab we’d be well away.

Great news for all you GA pilots. Every planning application for these inefficient monstrous white elephants is to be applauded loudly!;)

Re Windfarm. Application for planning consent at Bullington Cross/Stratford Scotney. Perhaps along with other registered objectors I ‘ve just received a Notice from Basingstoke B.C. Correspondence, of an unspecified nature, has led to some amendments to the planning application, one of which, is the re-location of a single turbine some distance away from the original site. I do not know what the other amendments are – if any. They can be found on the www.basingstoke.gov.uk website.

Objectors are invited to make further submissions not necessarily in connection with the amendments.

My personal and original objection was based upon the siting of these 14 wind turbines which at over 400 feet agl were to be sited in an area of intense aerial activity; that is, at a kind of aerial crossroads where civilian and military VFR traffic routing East/West or West/East from/to Popham/Thruxton and the other way and Middle Wallop/Boscombe to Odiham amd again in reverse, would conflict with traffic routing North to South and South to North using the A34 and the A303 as convergent navigational markers.

Around this area the land averages about 300 feet amsl. Add this to the blade tip height of the wind turbines and given that a cloud base of 1000 feet amsl is frequent especially in wiinter with its accompanying low lying mists and haze, the problems are easy to forecast.

I transit this area according to my log book at least twenty times per annum. Factor in the closest airfields; Popham, Thruxton, Old Sarum and Chilbolton that are likely to route this area frequently. I do not think it an exaggeration to claim a conservative total of around two to three thousand transits per year and that is just civilian aircraft. I would make a guess that the military would be responsible for an equal number.

I hope that based upon the above or, any other realistice objection, members can be pursuaded to write to Basingstoke Planning or directly to the Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles. There is widespread ignorance of aviation or related matters and I have no doubt that few in either Local Govt. or Govt. properly understand just what is at stake here. We must make sure that they DO understand that the risk of accident and loss of life thru collision with one or more of these giant machines becomes ever more likely should planning consent be approved

Charlie,

The previous appeal concerned Woodmancott Down or, similar not, Bullington Cross. This whole area is being swamped with applications for windfarms courtesy of EDF or, something like that.

Your deja vu hasn’t contracted deja vu !

Yes, me too ! I’m consoling myself with the thought that that previous one was in the same area but, a different site closer to Popham – I hope.

I seem to remember signing on another thread back in October soon after I joined the forum….or is age getting the better of my memory?:eek:

Mine’s gone.