A CAMPAIGNER who is fighting to stop a wind farm being built in Purbeck has made a formal complaint about the handling of a planning application for a turbine.
Geoff Edwardes, chairman of Dorset Against Rural Turbines (DART), says in a letter to Dorset County Council that the matter ‘represents injustices to the community’.
Planning permission for a single wind turbine with a 27-metre blade at Masters Pit, East Stoke, has been granted subject to conditions.
The planning committee has stated that either the single wind turbine can be built or four turbines in a separate application that were granted on appeal in July.
Commodore Edwardes, of Wool , writes that he is unhappy about the way the public consultation on the application was handled and the lack of communication about planning board deliberations at a meeting on September 7. He claims that only 25 households were informed of the application by developer Holme Sand and Ballast LLP.
Terry Stewart. chairman of the Purbeck Campaign to Protect Rural England, is backing Commodore Edwardes’ complaint.
Commodore Edwardes wrote that he may take the complaint to the local government Ombudsman.
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