Environment

Environmental Assessment

Wind farm planning applications must include an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR). The aim of the report is to present a detailed study of how the proposed Clonberne Wind Farm project may impact on the local area across a series of topics such as biodiversity, landscape, water, population, and human health. Each topic forms a standalone chapter in the EIAR.

An established protocol exists for developing an EIAR, beginning with collecting baseline data across the proposed development area. Once a final layout is confirmed, the potential impact of each turbine and the full wind farm is defined.

This is reviewed across each topic of the EIAR and appropriate decisions are made surrounding amendments to design or mitigating strategies where required.

These impacts and strategies form the EIAR which is submitted to the relevant planning authority. The relevant planning authority often attaches planning conditions based on the information set out in the EIAR.

Details of the EIAR will appear here when they are known and the views of the community have been taken on board.

• Population & Human Health

• Biodiversity

• Soils & Geology

• Water

• Noise & Vibration

• Air Quality & Climate

• Landscape & Visual

• Traffic & Transportation

• Culture & Heritage