We have heard from Daventry District Council Planning Department that as expected, Nuon have lodged an appeal against DDC’s decision to refuse permission for the windfarm development.  The appeal form was received by DDC on 19th March.  The appeal process allows 6 weeks from registration of the appeal for members of the public to send any additional information to the Planning Inspector.  It is regrettable that notice of the appeal was sent out on 6th April, with a cut-off date of 4th May for comments to be received, allowing us only 4 weeks to respond.

The appeal will be the subject of a Local Inquiry and the date proposed by Nuon, in agreement with DDC planning department, is 13th July with 6th July offered as an alternative.  Inquiries begin each day at 10:00am and Nuon estimate that the appeal will last 6 days.  Documentation for the appeal can be seen on DDC’s planning website:

http://212.125.73.214/swiftlg/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.DisplayUrl?theApnID=DA/2009/0168&theTabNo=3

The SNTHWF action group is currently analysing all the documentation (including more than 100 emails supporting the proposal which were automatically generated via Nuon’s web site and subsequently rightfully ignored by DDC in their count) and has offered any help needed by DDC in their defence of the decision reached by the Planning Committee.