Is the current planning system for renewables sidelining communities?

The growing amount, complexity, increasing fast pace of the process, and the way decisions on applications are reached - with some given the green light despite widespread local opposition- are some of the challenges faced by the local communities around the Kyle of Sutherland.


It seems [Scottish Ministers Alastair Allan and Gillian Martin] are completely detached from the reality of what is being faced here in the broadest terms, which at the last count is 171 turbines, 100 of them. . .

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