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Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Ovenden Moor Wind Farm


At some point during late summer or early autumn, E.ON, the company which operates the wind farm on Ovenden Moor, will submit a planning application to Calderdale District Council for permission to repower the installation.  Their intention is to reduce the number of turbines from the current twenty-two to nine.  However, these nine turbines will be considerably larger than those currently visible from Haworth Moor.  At 115m they will have a significant detrimental  visual impact on the landscape.

E.ON are holding Open Days at Ovenden on Friday, 6 and Saturday, 7 July from 10am to 4.30pm when the public can visit the wind farm and see the plans for the repowering.  It will also be an opportunity to express opinions about the proposals.

A representative of the Brontë Society will be attending on one of the days to discuss the plans with E.ON.

Full details of the repowering proposals and the Open Days can be found at http://www.eon-uk.com/generation/ovendenmoorrepower.aspx

Contact details for E.ON are as follows:-

By post:

Ovenden Moor Wind Farm
FREEPOST
RRSE-KZCU-AZJL
E.ON
Westwood Business Park
Westwood Way
Coventry    CV4 8LG

By email:


By phone:

0800 096 1199

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The existing turbines are visible even more far away than just Haworth Moor. They can be seen from as far away as north of Skipton.On paper a reduction in turbines may look good but nine ,considerably larger, turbines will certainly have a wide visual impact on a very large area of this part of Yorkshire.

Anonymous said...

I still don't see what the Bronte Society has to do with this.

Ben said...

This has everything to do with the Bronte Society. The landscape of the moors is directly relevant to the works of the Brontes, especially Emily.