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Cambridgeshire windfarm appeal thrown out

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Plans for a wind farm in Linton have been quashed.

Renewable energy developers who wanted to build an eight-turbine wind farm at Little Linton Farm have had their appeal against a council planning decision thrown out.

Applications were made to both South Cambridgeshire District Council and Uttlesford District Council at the start of last year to build the wind farm but both were refused.

Developers Enertrag appealed against the rejections and a six-week inquiry, which was adjourned for a number of months, took place.

Yesterday planning inspector Philip Major, who was appointed to head the inquiry, ruled in the councils’ favour. He also granted full costs, so public money spent on the appeal will be reimbursed.

South Cambridgeshire district councillor Nick Wright, planning portfolio holder, said it was an inappropriate place for a wind farm.

The inspector’s award of costs is a massive victory for this council, the local people and the district’s residents as a whole.

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