This application is for a single 250 Kw turbine, 43 m to blade tip in height, situated in green belt, on the north-west side of the Murroch Burn upstream from the new Aggreko factory. Claims to be able to supply power for 140 homes. Unusual in that this is at a relatively low altitude (100m.AOD) and only 438 m. from the Beechwood housing estate, whose streets are to be used for access and for construction traffic and which may be affected by the hum from the turbine or swoosh of the blades?
It would be partially screened by Broomhill Wood and, it is claimed, by recently planted trees, but with a life expectancy of 25 years it is doubtful if these would screen a 43 m. structure even in 250 years. Various predictions are made to its visibility from other selected viewpoints, including Gleniffer Braes, Paisley (18154m. away!), and Lyle Park Greenock (15083m,away) but the more obvious potential viewpoints in the Kilpatrick Hills such as Lang Craigs and Doughnot Hill and from east Dumbarton such as Garshake and Bellsmyre, appear to have been omitted. The site is 32 hectares; if granted, could there be a possibility of a further application for more turbines?
It would be partially screened by Broomhill Wood and, it is claimed, by recently planted trees, but with a life expectancy of 25 years it is doubtful if these would screen a 43 m. structure even in 250 years. Various predictions are made to its visibility from other selected viewpoints, including Gleniffer Braes, Paisley (18154m. away!), and Lyle Park Greenock (15083m,away) but the more obvious potential viewpoints in the Kilpatrick Hills such as Lang Craigs and Doughnot Hill and from east Dumbarton such as Garshake and Bellsmyre, appear to have been omitted. The site is 32 hectares; if granted, could there be a possibility of a further application for more turbines?