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Yelvertoft Wind Farm plans submitted

Your Energy Ltd this week submitted a planning application for an 8 turbine wind farm between Yelvertoft and the M1 motorway.

Yelvertoft Wind Farm will generate sufficient safe, clean, renewable electricity to meet the annual needs of between 9,100 and 9,600 homes - equivalent to approximately one-third of the whole Daventry district.

Submission of the proposal to Daventry District Council follows two years of rigorous and detailed environmental study on the site.

Your Energy has also held two rounds of public exhibitions as the scheme has developed, to enable residents of Yelvertoft, Crick and Lilbourne to find out more about the project and the important environmental benefits of wind energy, as well as ask questions and leave comments.

Additionally Your Energy wrote to over 1,300 local homes in the summer of 2008 again encouraging residents to give their comments.

After analysing responses, the scheme was reduced from 12 turbines to 8, all located to one side of the bridleway on the site. An access route to the site for construction vehicles was also devised taking into account residents' views and ensuring that construction traffic will not be routed through local villages.

Development Manager Charlotte Healey said: "Feedback from our extensive consultation work has been enormously useful to us and has helped shape the project.

"We have listened to local opinion throughout the process to date and will continue to do so. Our comprehensive Environmental Statement will shortly be available for anyone to view and download from our dedicated project website at www.yelvertoft-windfarm.co.uk.

"We have thoroughly assessed all relevant factors at this site and very strongly believe it is an excellent location for a wind farm. Yelvertoft Wind Farm will make a significant contribution to the fight against climate change."

The project website - www.yelvertoft-windfarm.co.uk - will continue to be updated throughout the application process. By registering on the site anyone interested can give further feedback and ask questions.

Councils are usually required to decide applications within four months so if planning permission is granted, Yelvertoft Wind Farm could be generating much-needed renewable energy as soon as 2010.

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