{"id":8890,"date":"2014-11-07T17:36:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T17:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2014-11-07T17:36:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T17:36:47","slug":"pickles-dismisses-south-norfolk-wind-farm-appeal-gi-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8890","title":{"rendered":"Pickles dismisses south Norfolk wind farm appeal: GI harm!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has dismissed an appeal over a Norfolk three-turbine wind farm (originally four were proposed) which the planning inspector who held the recovered inquiry recommended should be allowed, because of the significant level of harm to the Grade l listed St Margaret\u2019s Church and Hempnall Conservation Area<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of State\u2019s decision letter argued that the scheme, proposed for a site at Hempnall in south Norfolk, would pose a significant level of harm to the Grade l listed St Margaret\u2019s Church and Hempnall Conservation Area, as well as the landscape in the vicinity of the wind farm. That harm outweighed the benefits of the project, Pickles concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The unsuccessful appeal followed the non-determination of the application by the planning authority South Norfolk District Council.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/367574\/14-10-27_DL_IR_Busseys_Loke_Windfarm_S.Norfolk_2207755.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the decision letter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has dismissed an appeal over a Norfolk three-turbine wind farm (originally four were proposed) which the planning inspector who held the recovered inquiry recommended should be allowed, because of the significant level of harm to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8890\">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-8890","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\/8890","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=8890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8891,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions\/8891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}