{"id":11074,"date":"2015-09-16T17:48:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T16:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=11074"},"modified":"2015-09-16T17:48:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T16:48:35","slug":"uk-minister-on-welsh-infrastructure-projects-call-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=11074","title":{"rendered":"UK minister on Welsh infrastructure projects call in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Decisions on six proposed energy infrastructure proposals which were dealt with at a combined public inquiry due to call in by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change have been announced this week, with <\/u><u>four onshore wind farms and one overhead line project being refused and only one project with consent given, for onshore wind farm repowering.<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) writes:<\/u><br \/>\nThe Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom today announced planning decisions for six proposed energy infrastructure projects in Powys, Mid-Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The decisions follow a combined public inquiry, called by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which closed in May 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The decisions are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Llanbadarn Fynydd onshore wind farm refused;<\/li>\n<li>Llandinam onshore wind farm repowering consent given;<\/li>\n<li>Llaithddu onshore wind farm refused;<\/li>\n<li>Llanbrynmair onshore wind farm refused;<\/li>\n<li>Carnedd Wen onshore wind farm refused; and<\/li>\n<li>Llandinam to Welshpool Substation Overhead Power Line connection refused.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A DECC Spokesperson said: \u2018Careful consideration has been given to each application, and the planning and energy issues involved.\u2019<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Culture and heritage issues of relevance to the sites are considered within the reports, which can be accessed via the <a href=\"http:\/\/via https:\/\/itportal.decc.gov.uk\/EIP\/pages\/projects\/InspectorsReportEnglish.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">DECC website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/portaldirector.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/10\/uk-energy-minister-blocks-four-welsh-wind-farms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Planning Portal on the decision<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decisions on six proposed energy infrastructure proposals which were dealt with at a combined public inquiry due to call in by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change have been announced this week, with four onshore wind farms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=11074\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11075,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11074\/revisions\/11075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}