Planners with wind

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Planners with wind!

• Kristina Peat
• Sustainability Officer
• City of York Council

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York EcoDepot

• Proposal and its location.
• Main issues
• Planning
• Noise
• Visual impact
• The future.

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The proposal

• 15 kW, 25m mast Proven wind turbine,
• Estimated annual energy yield 42k kWh.
• Total installed cost 74k
• Will cost 1.75 per installed kWh.
• Payback Period approx. 4 years.

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The proposal
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The location
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The location
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Planning

• First application of its type in city.
• Needed full planning application, couldnt be
  treated as minor modification.
• Proximity to residential properties

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Noise

• Background noise assessments.
• Which noise assessments standard?
• ETSU-R-97, The Assessment Rating of Noise from
  Wind Farms, or
• British Standard 4142 1997, Method for Rating
  industrial noise affecting mixed residential and
  industrial areas

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Noise

• Reliance on
• manufacturers
• noise data.

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Visual impact
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Visual Impact
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Visual impact
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Visual Impact
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The Future

• Regional Spatial Strategy
• York's emerging
• Local Development
• Framework

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New development plan system

• Emphasis on sustainable development
• Strategic Environmental Assessments
  Sustainability
• Appraisals.
• Plan hierarchy

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Local Development Framework

• Core strategy says
• Sustainable
• development is the
• overarching goal that
• underpins the LDF

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Local Development Framework

• Separate sections on
• Sustainable design construction
• Renewable energy,
• as part of new developments, and
• larger scale renewable energy developments.

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Future challenges

• Raising awareness
• of technologies.
• Planning guidance
• for planners the
• rest of us!
• Planning is part of
• democratic process
• public involvement
• in the issues.
• Planning is not a
• hoop to jump
• through it is also
• an opportunity.

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Kristina PeatCity of York Council

• 01904 551666
• Kristina.peat_at_york.gov.uk