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The Welsh Assembly's TAN 8 document identified the Nant-y-moch area as
suitable for wind turbines.
A map from the developers indicated the"Nant-y-moch Preliminary Layout"
appears now to be out of date, but we haven't been given a sight of the
replacement. The original can be seen on http://www.cambrian-mountains.co.uk/issues/wind.htm
It shows over 100 turbines
covering an area which extends from just outside Talybont in the west
and well into Powys in the east, and from Cwm Einion (known to many as
Artists’ Valley!) in the north to Llyn Craigypistyll (the source of
Aberystwyth’s water) in the south. It includes the site of Cerrig
Cyfammod Glyndŵr where Owen Glyndŵr is reputed to have “held parley,
and made his covenant” and is close to the probable site of Glyndŵr’s
famous victory in the Battle of Hyddgen.
The developers have ignored the recommendations produced by ARUP
consultants working on behalf of Ceredigion Council who concluded: "It
is recommended in accordance with the study brief that the TAN 8 SSA
boundary is … refined to remove the environmentally worst performing
areas and any additional land not needed to deliver the TAN 8 indicative
capacities".
This recommendation would have significantly reduced the area
originally proposed by the Assembly, but the developers are now
proposing to extend it - to go beyond not only ARUP but also beyond the
original SSA boundary.
If these proposals are implemented they will have massive
implications for the Group's walking programme. |