CPRE News
BEST KEPT VILLAGE COMPETITION RESULTS:
| FINAL ROUND RESULTS 2010 | ||
| CLASS | WINNER | RUNNER-UP |
| PAST WINNERS | BERRYNARBOUR | WOOLSERY |
| LARGE VILLAGES | THURLSTONE | COLYFORD |
| SMALL VILLAGES | BRANSCOMBE | BLACK TORRINGTON |
| NEW ENTRIES | BEER | HOLCOMBE ROGUS |
NORTH DEVON NEWSLETTER now available - click here to read.
EAST DEVON GROUP are looking for a very Part Time Secretary! If you can spare a few hours a month please contact Tim Hale, the Chairman, or Marion Trotter. Any help would be gratefully accepted.
WIND TURBINE INQUIRY SUCCESS!
The Inspector has dismissed both the Bickham Moor and Three Moors appeals. Many thanks to all who worked so hard on these cases - on the appeals themselves and the fundraising to make it all possible; David Cocks QC, CPRE Devon led by the North Devon Chair Bob Barfoot, The Three Moors Campaign and The Exmoor Society (The Exmoor Alliance) To read the decisons in full click the report title Bickham Moor Decision Three Moors Decision.
GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSES NOISE PROTECTION EXPERT ADVICE
New Evidence Shows that Government Suppressed Expert Advice to Lower Wind Turbine Noise Limits Intended to Protect Residents
New evidence released by the Dept. of Energy and Climate Change under a Freedom of Information request shows that Government suppressed a recommendation by its own acoustics consultants to tighten current noise regulations on wind turbines in order to protect local residents from night time noise. This does little credit to the Department, and must be corrected immediately. To read more click here. To go to the Denbrook Judicial Review Group's website click here.
WIND FARM PUBLIC INQUIRY FINALLY COMES TO AN END The Three Moors/Bickham Moor wind farm public inquiry finally drew to a close on 24 November with a day of closing submissions from the five QCs.
The public inquiry was into two appeals lodged in September 2008. One was by Airtricity for 9 wind turbines each 105 metres high close to Knowstone in North Devon, known by the appellant as the Three Moors wind farm, only about 2 miles from the boundary of Exmoor National Park. The other was by Coronation Power for 4 wind turbines each 100 metres high, known by the appellant as the Bickham Moor wind farm, about 4 miles from the boundary of the National Park.
CPRE Devon joined with the Exmoor Society and the Two Moors Campaign to form the Rural Exmoor Alliance which then registered with the Planning Inspectorate as a Rule 6 Party for the public inquiry. To read more about the inquiry click here. To read the summary closing submission by the Rural Alliance's QC click here.
LATEST CASE NOTES PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2009 - Go to the members page to read about your area.
CPRE DEVON AUTUMN NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED Click here to read the latest news.
THE LATEST NORTH DEVON NEWSLETTER HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2009 Click here to read it.
BEST KEPT VILLAGE COMPETITION 2009 - RESULTS Please click here to go to the BKV page. Also on the BKV page the results of the PAM PARKER CHILDREN'S MAP COMPETITION.
RENEWABLE ENERGY OBLIGATIONS AND THE CLIMATE CHANGE LEVY. Our North Devon Chairman Bob Barfoot has been working with John Constable, Director of Policy and Research at the Renewable Energy Foundation to produce an explanation of RO. To read their paper click here.
April 2008 CPRE Devon commission groundbreaking report in wind farm visualisations. Following questions raised about the accuracy of developer's photomontages of proposed wind farms CPRE Devon commissioned Architech Animation Studios Ltd to review them.To read a summary of the report click here.
Click here to see photos. (NB for those with dial up the file size is 3.5MB)
