After intensive environmental research and a evaluate of the suggestions collected throughout the early engagement carried out in late 2021, Pennant Walters has introduced the launch of its statutory session on detailed proposals for Mynydd y Glyn wind farm in Rhondda Cynon Taf.
That is the second statutory session train that Pennant Walters has undertaken within the house of 5 months – the primary being that for its wind farm proposals at Mynydd Carn-y-Cefn in Blaenau Gwent, which was held throughout the summer time.
The RCT website is positioned three kilometres to the west of Pontypridd, adjoining to Pre-Assessed Space 9 for wind power. The proposals embody as much as seven wind generators with a most blade top of 180m and ancillary improvement together with a substation and transformer housing, short-term building compounds and website places of work, crane pads and cabling, and entry tracks.
Pennant Walters estimate that the wind farm will generate as much as 30MW of electrical energy, which is equal to offering sufficient energy to satisfy the annual electrical energy wants of roughly 15,376 properties. The wind farm has been designed with an operational lifetime of 30 years, exporting renewable power to the Nationwide Grid.
As soon as once more, Pennant Walters goes above and past necessities with their session which features a digital exhibition and a full assortment of draft planning software documentation. This may embody the Planning Assertion, Environmental Assertion, and Design and Entry Assertion, all of which is offered on the undertaking web site: www.mynydd-y-glyn.co.uk . The Welsh firm may also maintain three public exhibitions to showcase the undertaking and supply a possibility for residents to debate the proposals with members of the undertaking staff:
The session will give the communities near the undertaking the possibility to look at the plans and supply feedback/responses for the undertaking staff to think about earlier than finalising the Improvement of Nationwide Significance (DNS) software. The appliance will then be submitted to Planning and Atmosphere Choices Wales (PEDW) for consideration earlier than being decided by Welsh Ministers.
Meryl Lewis, Director of Atmosphere and Sustainability for Pennant Walters stated:
“Mynydd y Glyn Wind Farm will present power for 1000’s of properties in Wales, which within the context of an power disaster is a good alternative for homegrown renewable power era.
“We place large worth on the communities we interact with throughout the session course of and stay up for listening to from them as they look at our plans. There’s additionally the chance for residents and stakeholders to have a say within the Group Advantages Fund hooked up to the undertaking, notably the way it ought to be managed and the forms of native tasks it might assist.”
Based mostly on 30MW, the fund might generate £150,000 each year for communities within the Mynydd y Glyn space, which over the 30-year undertaking lifetime would equate to £4.5m. To this point, Pennant Walters has distributed over £4 million to qualifying tasks from the Group Advantages Funds for its different wind farm tasks in Wales.
The session closes on 9 December 2022.
