THE 'MOORSYDE' PETITION

OVER 80% OF LOCAL HOUSEHOLDS REJECT 'MOORSYDE' SCHEME

Members of the Moorsyde Action Group steering committee presented a petition objecting to the 'Moorsyde' wind turbine array to the Borough Development Services Department on Thursday, 16 June 2005.

Of a total of 756 signatures opposing the proposal, 264 were from people living within 2.5 km of the site. An analysis of the petition results showed that 81.2% of households within this distance of the proposed development of fourteen 360 ft. turbines had registered their opposition to Your Energy's plans.¹

• Total no. of signatories - 756.



• Total no. of occupied properties within 2.5km of the 'Moorsyde' site - 197
  (unoccupied properties and known holiday lets were excluded).²



• Total no. of households objecting to the proposed development - 160.



• Total no. of households unwilling to sign petition - 28.³



• Total no. of households where views were not known or unavailable - 9.

• Households within 2.5km who signed petition - 81.2%.



• Unable to sign or in favour of proposal - 14.2%.



• Not known or unavailable - 4.6%.

¹ Total excludes empty properties and holiday rentals.

² Your Energy have asserted that, "There are probably no more than 50 houses in close proximity that would be effected [sic] ..." (Berwick Advertiser, 2 June 2005).

Your Energy's own Environmental Statement, which accompanies the planning application, states that within 3 km the turbine array will be visually "dominant" and will have a "major" impact on households.

³ A number of these were tenants or employees of landowners involved in the 'Moorsyde' proposal, or had a financial or professional interest.

OBJECTION!