CONTROVERSIAL plans to build 19 turbines on Frodsham Marshes have been given the green light.
Despite years of campaigning by residents, the department of Energy and Climate Change have granted Peel Energy permission to build a Windfarm on Frodsham Marshes.
The news comes almost 10 months after the Public Inquiry, where Cheshire West and Chester Council and campaign group Residents Against the Windfarm fought to get the plans turned down, fearing the development would destroy the lives of residents living in the shadow of the turbines.
But in a report put forward following the Inquiry to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change by Inspector Philip Major says the benefits of the Windfarm ‘clearly outweigh the harm to the Green Belt’ as well as the landscape impact and the effects on the historical hill fort.
For a full report and reactions from campaigners and Peel Energy get this week’s Frodsham and Helsby edition of the Chester Chronicle.
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