Berkeley Vale, Stroud District
In our back yard.
We’re really excited about this one. A new wind park for Stroud District – our home turf.
We built
our first turbine here way back in 1996 and, needless to say, we’ve been looking forward to building more ever since.
A quarter of the homes in the Stroud District could be powered by a second wind park in the area - a worthwhile milestone in the fight against climate change.
If you want to know more now, please contact us at berkeley-vale@ecotricity.co.uk
At this stage, we can't be definite on how many turbines and what size they will be.
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Vital statistics
Site address - In the Vale of Berkeley, near the M5
Planning Since - 06 Jul 2009
Turbines - 8
Hub height - 78m
Rotor diameter - 82m
Capacity - 16MW
Green electricity per year -
38.57 million units
Equivalent homes - 11,585
CO2 savings - 16,585 tonnes
12 November 2009
Our application for a temporary wind monitoring mast was rejected by Stroud District Planning Committee on the grounds that it would be detrimental to the setting of the Cotswolds AONB. We're disappointed with the decision of course, and it was against the advice of Stroud District Council’s own Planning Officers. The visual impact on the Cotswolds AONB appears to be an odd reason to refuse a temporary structure less than 9 inches wide, outside of the AONB.
Worse still, on the same day the same committee approved our application for a bigger mast actually in the AONB - where the purpose was not for the future building of windmills, yet they turn down our application for a smaller mast outside of the AONB - on visual impact grounds - on a site where we say we do want to build windmills. We’re sure that is something the committee will struggle to explain following the current planning appeal.
06 July 2009
We are about to kick off the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process.
The Stroud District Council will shortly receive our request for a scoping opinion which will outline the proposal we’d like to progress. Stroud Council will then respond detailing what they’d like us to study and report on as part of our planning application.
This first stage will also draw on the views of statutory consultees, bodies such as Natural England and the Ministry of Defence.
