This objection relates to the proposed Euchanhead Wind Farm (ECU00002141), a large-scale hybrid energy development seeking consent under Section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 in Dumfries and Galloway, with associated access infrastructure extending into East Ayrshire. The proposal includes 19 wind turbines reaching up to 230 metres in height, extensive new and upgraded access tracks, ancillary infrastructure, and a battery energy storage facility.
The proposed site lies within a highly sensitive landscape, close to the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere, the Thornhill Uplands Regional Scenic Area, dark sky interests, and the Southern Upland Way. The development would affect valued landscapes, recreational routes, heritage features, wildlife habitats, peatland carbon stores, and nearby communities, in an area already subject to significant cumulative wind farm development.
The objection sets out concerns about procedural fairness, landscape and visual impacts, tourism, biodiversity loss, peat disturbance, flood risk, noise, residential amenity, aviation lighting, cultural heritage, public safety, and the limited and uncertain socioeconomic benefits claimed. It explains why the scale, location, and cumulative effects of the proposal are considered inappropriate, and why consent should not be granted.
