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Last Modified: 22 July 2008

Northumberland (Green Rigg / Ray / Steadings) Windfarms Public Inquiry - Core Documents

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* Please Note: these files may have differing links to that shown on this page. The links on this page were  verified on 03/04/2008.  Latest core documents added 7th July 2008 (CD321 to CD325).

CONTENTS:

Steadings Windfarm

- Application Documents & Other Project-Specific Documents

Ray Windfarm

- Application Documents & Other Project-Specific Documents

Green Rigg Windfarm - Application / Appeal Documents and other associated documents

Planning Policy Documents

- Development Plan
- Emerging Development Plan
- Other Planning Documents
- Planning Policy Statements (PPS) and Companion Guides
- Planning (PPG) and Minerals (MPG) Policy Guidance

- Relevant Legislation (Acts of Parliament / Government Circulars / Case Law)
Renewable Energy
Documents
- Climate Change Documents
- Windfarm Appeal Decisions
- Other Appeal Decisions
Landscape and Visual
Cultural Heritage
Public Perception Documents
Construction
Nature Conservation
Noise
Aviation
Other Documents

STEADINGS WINDFARM

Application Documents and other associated documents
CD1 Section 36 Application dated 12 April 2006
CD2

Environmental Statement
i. Folder 1: Non technical Summary; Planning Statement; Written Statement;
Drawings
ii. Folder 2: Appendices
iii. Folder 3: Appendix 3
iv. Folder 4: Photomontages

CD3

1.1 Regulation 13 Submission 2 February 2007.
i. Folder 1 Written Statement
ii. Folder 2: Additional Visualisations

CD4 Northumberland County Council objection dated 4 May 2007
CD5 Tynedale District Council Form B objection dated 29 May 2007
CD6 Consultee Responses
CD7

Supplementary Environmental Information (SEI) September 2007
i. Written Statement and figures
ii. Appendix 1

CD8 Consultee Responses to SEI
CD9

IRONSIDE FARRAR 2007 Steadings Windfarm: Audit of Environmental Assessment April 2007

CD10 IRONSIDE FARRAR 2007 Steadings Windfarm: Audit of Supplementary Environmental Information (Draft) For Tynedale Council, October 2007

RAY WINDFARM

Application Documents and other associated documents
CD11 Section 36 Application
CD12 Ray NTS (Vol 1) – 2005
CD13 Planning Statement – December 2005
CD14 Ray ES (Vol 2)
CD15 Ray ES (Vol 3)
CD16 Ray ES (Vol 4)
CD17 Ray ES (Vol 5) – Appendices
CD18 Further Information (Vol 1) – November 2006
CD19 Further Information (Vol 2)
CD20 Ray – Tynedale District Council Committee Report 21 March 2007
CD21 Ray – Tynedale Minutes of Meeting 21 March 2007
CD22 Ray – Tynedale Council Form B submission
CD23 Ray – Alnwick District Council Form B Submission
CD24 Ray –  Alnwick District Council Committee Report
CD25 Ray – Audit – Tynedale Council Final Report
CD26 Ray – County Council Committee Report
CD27 Ray – Northumberland County Council Form B Submission

GREEN RIGG WINDFARM

CD28

Environmental Statement
Volume 1 – Non-technical Summary
Volume 2 – Environmental Statement
Volume 3 – Figure
Volume 4 - Appendices

CD29 Planning Statement
CD30 Tynedale Council Committee Report on Green Rigg Wind Farm, April 2007
CD31 Questionnaire & Consultation responses (2 volumes)
CD32 Supplementary information
CD33 Reports and revisions

PLANNING POLICY DOCUMENTS

Development Plan
CD34

RPG1 - Regional Spatial Strategy (Regional Planning Guidance 1 for the North East) (RSS)
http://www.gos.gov.uk/nestore/docs/planning/planning_guidance.pdf

CD35

(a) Northumberland County and National Park Joint Structure Plan, adopted May 1996
http://pscm.northumberland.gov.uk/pls/portal92/docs/14414

(b) Alteration (a schedule of Policies): Northumberland County and National Park Joint Structure Plan – Adopted Policies, adopted in February 2005
http://pscm.northumberland.gov.uk/pls/portal92/docs/14432

(c) List of Saved Policies from September 2007
http://pscm.northumberland.gov.uk/pls/portal92/docs/14405 

(d) Government Office for the North East letter of 11 December 2007 to the North East Assembly with Section 8 Direction re. Policies in the Northumberland County and National Park Joint Structure Plan First Alteration (February 2005)

(e) Northumberland County and National Park Joint Structure Plan Schedule of Adopted Policies and Key Diagram - February 2008 - Written Statement

CD36

Joint Structure Plan - Text on Major Developments
http://pscm.northumberland.gov.uk/portal/page?_pageid=102
%2C54091&_dad=portal92&_schema=PORTAL92&pid=599

CD37 Tynedale District Local Plan
CD38 Alnwick District Council Local Plan
CD39 Local Development Framework – Adopted Core Strategy – Tynedale District Cponcil
CD40 Local Development Framework – Adopted Core Strategy – Alnwick District Council
Emerging Development Plan
CD41 Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) for North East – Submission draft June 2005
CD42 RSS Panel 2006. Draft Regional Spatial Strategy for the North East, Examination in Public, Panel Report July 2006.
CD43 RSS – Sustainability Report – February 2007 – proposed changes
CD44 RSS Draft 2007. North East of England Regional Spatial Strategy: The Secretary of State's proposed changes to the draft submitted by the North East Assembly May 2007, Government Office for the North East http://www.go-ne.gov.uk/nestore/docs/planning/rss_documents/a.pdf
CD45

The North East of England Plan Regional Spatial Strategy to 2021 (Extracts)
http://www.gos.gov.uk/gone/planning/regional_planning/?a=42496 

Other Planning Documents
CD46 Tynedale Local Development Framework. Core Strategy: Preferred options February 2006
CD47 Tynedale Local Development Framework. Core Strategy: Issues and Options June 2005
CD48 Alnwick LDF – Core Strategy Submission Document – November 2006
CD49 Alnwick D.C. Local Development Consultation Document
CD50

RPG 13 2003 Regional Planning Guidance for the North West: The Regional Spatial Strategy for the North West March 2003.
http://www.gos.gov.uk/497468/docs/273480/RPG13

CD51

Planning White Paper dated May 2007
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/
planningsustainablefuture

CD52 Northumberland National Park Authority Building Design Guide SPD. November 2006, Section 9 Sustainable Construction and Renewable Energy
CD53 Castle Morpeth District Local Plan (Castle Morpeth BC) (2003)
CD54 Tynedale Local Development Framework. Core Strategy: Development Plan Document Formal Submission – North East Assembly
CD55 Tynedale Local Development Framework. Core Strategy: Formal Submission, English Heritage
CD56 Tynedale Local Development Framework. Core Strategy: Formal Submission: Paul Willis
CD57 Tynedale Local Development Framework. Core Strategy: Formal Submission: Banks Developments
CD58 Tynedale Local Development Framework. Core Strategy: Formal Submission: Ward Haddaway
CD59 Non-Technical Summary of the Core Submission Document – November 2006
CD60 North East Strategy for the Environment – Consultation Draft December 2006
CD61 Northumberland's Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Strategy 2003
CD62 Towards a Renewable Strategy for the North East – Consultation Summary 2003
CD63 Local Agenda 21 Strategy for Tynedale
CD64 Renewable Energy – Where Northumberland National Park Stands
CD65 Integrated Regional Framework for the North East
CD66 Final Application Advert
CD67 Final Application Letter -  FAO Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, 12 December 2005
CD68 Regulation 13 (Electricity Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000) Notice Letter including Archaeological Evaluation. 2 May 2006
Planning Policy Statements (PPS) and Companion Guides
CD69

The Planning System: General Principles
 
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/
planningandbuilding/planningsystem

CD71

Consultation – Planning Policy Statement: Planning and Climate Change – Supplement to Planning Policy Statement 1, Department of Communities and Local Government, December 2006
 
http://www.communities.gov.uk/archived/publications/
planningandbuilding/
consultationplanningpolicy

CD72

PPS7: Sustainable Development in Rural Areas (2004)
http://www.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding/planning
/planningpolicyguidance/
planningpolicystatements
/planningpolicystatements/pps7

CD73

PPS9: Biodiversity and Geological Conservation (2005)
http://www.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding/planning
/planningpolicyguidance/planningpolicystatements
/planningpolicystatements/pps9

CD74

PPS22: Renewable Energy (2004)
http://www.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding/planning
/planningpolicyguidance/planningpolicystatements
/planningpolicystatements/pps22/

CD75

‘Planning for Renewable Energy: A Companion Guide to PPS22’
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/
planningandbuilding/planningrenewable

CD76

PPS23: Planning and Pollution Control
http://www.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding/planning
/planningpolicyguidance/planningpolicystatements
/planningpolicystatements/pps23/

CD77

PPS25: Development and Flood Risk (2006)
http://www.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding/planning/
planningpolicyguidance/planningpolicystatements
/planningpolicystatements/pps25/

Planning (PPG) and Minerals (MPG) Policy Guidance
CD78

PPG13: Transport
http://www.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding/planning/
planningpolicyguidance/planningpolicystatements
/planningpolicyguidance/229208/

CD79

PPG15: Planning and the Historical Environment (1994)
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/
planningandbuilding/planningpolicyguidance8

CD80

PPG16: Archaeology and Planning (1990)
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/
planningandbuilding/planningpolicyguidance9

CD81

PPG24: Planning and Noise (1994)
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/
planningandbuilding/planningpolicyguidance14

CD82

Good Practice Guide on Planning for Tourism
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/
planningandbuilding/goodpracticeguide

NOTE: Planning Policy Guidance 21: Tourism (PPG21) was cancelled on 1 September 2006. For national planning guidance on tourism, please refer to the
 Good Practice Guide on Planning for Tourism, published in May 2006.
CD83

Mineral Planning Guidance (MPG) 11: Control of noise at surface mineral workings (1993)
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/
planningandbuilding/mineralsplanningguidance9

Relevant Legislation – Acts of Parliament/Government Circulars and case law
CD84

Town and Country Planning Act 1990
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1990/Ukpga_19900008_en_1.htm

CD85

Planning (Listed Buildings & Conservation Areas) Act 1990
http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/legResults.aspx?LegType=All%
20Primary&PageNumber=4&BrowseLetter=P&NavFrom=
1&activeTextDocId=2133903

CD86

Ancient Monument and Archaeological Areas Act 1979
http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/legResults.aspx?LegType=All%
20Primary&PageNumber=5&BrowseLetter=A&NavFrom=
1&activeTextDocId=444101

CD87

Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-3614

CD88

Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts2000/20000037.htm
Explanatory Note - 
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/en2000/2000en37.htm

CD89

Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2007
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2006/20060016.htm

CD90

DfT/ODPM Circular 01/03 ‘Safeguarding Aerodromes, Technical Sites and Military Explosives
Storage Areas’
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/aviation/safety/safeguarding/

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/aviation/safety/safeguarding/
safeguardingaerodromestechni2988

CD91

The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and
 Wales) Regulations 1999 (Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 293)

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1999/19990293.htm

CD92

Circular 02/99 “Environmental Impact Assessment”
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/
circularenvironmentalimpact
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/professionals/en
/1021020434070.html

CD93

The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (Statutory Instrument 2006 No. 3295)
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2006/uksi_20063295_en.pdf
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/em2006/uksiem_20063295_en.pdf

CD94

Department for Communities and Local Government “Environment Impact Assessment: A Guide to Good Practice & Procedures – A consultation paper” (June 2006)
http://www.communities.gov.uk/archived/publications
/planningandbuilding/environmentalimpactassessment

CD95

Department for Communities and Local Government “Amended Circular on Environmental Impact Assessment: A consultation paper” (June 2006)
http://www.communities.gov.uk/archived/publications
/planningandbuilding/amendedcircular

CD96

ODPM Circular 11/95 “The use of Conditions in Planning Permission”
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications
/planningandbuilding/circularuse

CD97

Circular 10/1999 “Planning and Noise”
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/1999/04/circular-10-1999

CD98

The Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994: Statutory Instrument 1994 No. 2716
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1994/uksi_19942716_en_1.htm

CD99

Hedgerows Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997 No.1160)
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1997/19971160.htm

CD100 R. v. Canterbury City Council, ex p. Halford [I992] J.P.L. 851.
CD101 Winchester City Council v. Secretary of State for the Environment (1978) 36 P. & C.R. 455

RENEWABLE ENERGY DOCUMENTS

CD102

HM Government “Meeting the Energy Challenge” A White Paper on Energy, May 2007, Dti
http://www.gnn.gov.uk/environment/fullDetail.asp?ReleaseID=
286525&NewsAreaID=2&NavigatedFromDepartment=False

 
http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/whitepaper/page39534.html
(a) Speech made by John Hutton, SoS for Business, to the Fabian Society – 17 September 2007
(b) “The appropriate development of wind energy: guidance for local planning authorities”, South West Renewable Energy Agency (October 2003)

CD103 “Proposed Targets for the Development of Renewable Energy in the North East to 2010”, Chris Blandford Study for the DTI and DETR
CD104

OVE ARUP & PARTNERS LTD 2006 Wind farm Development and Landscape Capacity

Studies: Knowesgate and Harwood Forest Final Report for the North East Regional

Assembly, June 2006.
CD105 CAG Consultants (London) & Brookes University (Oxford) 2005 The Planning Response to Climate Change: Advice on Better Practice Report for the ODPM, September 2004
CD106 TNEI Services Limited, 2007. Onshore Wind Energy Planning Conditions Guidance Note A Report for the Renewables Advisory Board and BERR, October 2007, BERR
CD107

DTI Energy White Paper “Our Energy Future: Creating a Low Carbon Economy” (2003)
http://www.dti.gov.uk/files/file10719.pdf

CD108

North East of England Regional Renewable Energy Strategy (2003)
http://www.gos.gov.uk/nestore/docs/envandrural/energy
/renew_energy_strat_jul03.pdf

CD109

North East of England Regional Renewable Energy Strategy (Review 2005)
http://www.gos.gov.uk/nestore/docs/envandrural/energy
/renew_energy_strat_nov05.pdf
(a) North East Regional Renewable Energy Strategy (March 2005)

CD110

EC Communication “The share of renewable energy in the EU” COM(2004)366 final (2004)
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/res/legislation/country_profiles
/com_2004_366_en.pdf

CD111

House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, 4th Report of Session 2003-04 “Renewable Energy: Practicalities” (2004)
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200304/ldselect
/ldsctech/126/12602.htm

CD112

House of Commons Select Committee “Environmental Audit – Tenth Report” 2004
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect
/cmenvaud/490/49002.htm

CD113

Enterprise and Culture Committee of the Scottish Parliament: “Renewable Energy in Scotland” – 6th Report, 2004 (session 2)
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/enterprise
/reports-04/elr04-06-01.htm

CD114

‘Wind Power in the UK’, Sustainable Development Commission, May 2005 (revised November 2005)
http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/publications/downloads
/Wind_Energy-NovRev2005.pdf

CD115

National Audit Office Report “Department of Trade and Industry: Renewable Energy” (February 2005)
http://www.nao.org.uk/pn/04-05/0405210.htm
http://www.nao.org.uk/publications/nao_reports/04-05/0405210.pdf

CD116 Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford “Wind Power and the UK Wind Resource” (2005)
CD117

The Energy Challenge: Energy Review Report, Department for Trade and Industry, 2006,
http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/review/page31995.html

CD118

The Stern Review “Economics of Climate Change” (October 2006)
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/
stern_review_economics_climate_change
/sternreview_index.cfm

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/
stern_review_economics_climate_change
/stern_review_report.cfm

CD119

“The Costs and Impacts of Intermittency: An assessment of the evidence on the costs and impacts of intermittent generation on the British electricity network”, UKERC, (ICL), March 2006
http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/Downloads/PDF/06/0604
_Intermittency_report_final.pdf

CD120

Scoping Guidelines on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of Projects – Section 17-"Scoping the environmental impacts of windfarms (on-shore and off-shore)”, Environment Agency, May 2002
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/commondata
/acrobat/scoping_guidelines.pdf

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/business/444304/
773887/311024/?version=1&lang=_e

CD121

“The Path to Power: Delivering Confidence in Britain’s wave and tidal stream industry”, June 2006.
http://www.bwea.com/pdf/pathtopower/PathtoPower_low.pdf

CD122

Delivering Community Benefits from Wind Energy Development: A Toolkit.  A report for the Renewables Advisory Board and DTI.  May 2007.
http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file38710.pdf

Climate Change Documents 
CD124

A report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “Summary for Policymakers” (January 2007)
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Print_SPM.pdf

a) A report of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “Mitigation of Climate Change” (May 2007)
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM040507.pdf

b) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, February 2007
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg1.htm

CD125

European Commission White Paper “Energy for the Future: Renewable Sources of Energy” COM(97)599 final (26/11/1997) (1997)
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/library/599fi_en.pdf

CD126

EU Directive on Renewables 2001/77/EC
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/pri/en/oj/dat/2001/l_283/
l_28320011027en00330040.pdf

CD127 An Energy Policy for Europe – The Need for Action. European Commission. 2007
CD128 The Planning Response to Climate Change: Advice on Better Practice
CD129 Wind Power in the UK: a guide to the key issues surrounding shore wind power development in the UK
Windfarm Appeal Decisions
CD130

Various Windfarm Appeal and Application Decisions, including (but not limited to):
(a) Deeping St Nicholas, South Holland (APP/A2525/A/02/1099738)
(b) Knabs Ridge, Harrogate (APP/E2/34/A/04/1161332)
(c) Bradworthy, Torridge (APP/W1145/A/02/1105474)
(d) Darracott, Torridge (APP/W1145/A/03/1119641)
(e) Mablethorpe, East Lindsey (APP/D2510/A/03/1122526)
(f) St. Breock (T/APP/C0820/A/92/207958/P2)
(g) Ferndale (APP/L6940/A/04/1154754)