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20-Aug-14, 15:50
The Caithness Business Index (http://www.caithness-business.co.uk) has posted the following article:

Wind Farm at Glen Kyllachy near Tomatin Refused Planning Permission




On Tuesday 19 August 2014 members of The Highland Council's South Planning Applications Committee have refused to grant planning permission to RWE Innogy UK Limited for a 20 turbine wind farm at Glen Kyllachy near Tomatin. The motion, moved by Councillor Bill Lobban and seconded by Councillor Carolyn Caddick was that the application be refused on the grounds that it contravenes Policy 67 of the Highland Wide Local Development Plan in that the development will have a significant detrimental visual impact, both taken cumulatively with Farr Wind Farm and on its own, at areas of regional and local significance, notably, as viewed from the Slochd, Strathnairn, Loch Ashie, Abriachan , and consequently, the Great Glen Way. [Read Full Article (http://www.caithness-business.co.uk/article.php?id=5242)]