There is a proposal for a wind farm at Davidstow by a company calling itself ‘Community Windpower Ltd’. The name of the project is ‘Davidstow Community Windfarm’.
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This is a community project, right?
Well you would have thought so wouldn’t you with a name like ‘Davidstow Community Windfarm’. The company is based in Cheshire and has no significant links to the area. It is a commercial company that seems to think it’s OK to hijack words like ‘community’ and redefine them. When you view their website on the links to the right just read ‘commercial’ wherever it says ‘community’.
Yes but they work with local schools. If the schools are in favour it must be OK.
Well no. Schools aren’t for or against developments. They are just busy educating our children. And when the schools hosts presentations by the Cheshire company they are not supporting it – just renting them a room. But it does all add to the impression of being a community project doesn’t it?
What is the scale of the proposal?
The intial proposal is for 20 turbines with a hub height of 80m, the blades will be 45.2m long with a rotor diameter of 92.5m. This makes a total of 126.25m to the tips of the blades. This is 415ft in old money and from where they will be positioned, they’ll be higher than Brown Willy, the highest point in Cornwall!
It’s a brown field site - just the place to redevelop?
OK you could say that it is a brown field site because an airfield was built here during the war. But it is not any old brown field site. It is on the edge of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, partly within an Area of Great Landscape Value and Site of Special Scientific interest.
It is in area 17 on the map of Cornwall County Council’s Landscape Character areas rated Medium – High sensitivity and bordering area 25c rated High sensitivity.
It is a highly valued amentity for people and for wildlife.
March 23, 2008 at 10:50 am
These people have had to move of the Airfield because its actually common land, but they like to say they have moved to distance themselves from houses, but they are actually still as close to some and nearer to some others.So now they are in the forest and on farm land which is cut down every 30 years or so but dose host a million Starlings in the winter and countless other species.If you walk along the side of the reservoir you will see a sign saying that it is a sensetive area and to please respect it, the other side of the fence they want to put the turbines.
The only brown thing is the points the forestry commission will get for having the turbines in the trees.
If community wind say we need a ranger then it will be the smallest woodland in the country to have one.This landscape has not needed one upto now .Its all bullshit.