Objections to the following developments can be made through our online forms - please click the links and complete the form to place your objection.

Quick Links : Bower Quarry • Burn of Whilk • Dunbeath • Durran Mains • Halsary
Lieurary • Spittal Hill • Strathy North • Strathy South

We understand that late objections will continue to be considered but late objectors may not be invited to attend the hearing, so even if you have missed the deadline for objecting to earlier applications, it is still worth doing. Do not give up!

If you want to download the form and post it you will require the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader - if you do not already have it you can download it from here.

You may also wish to send a copy of your objection to your local Councillor(s). If you have used the online form you will receive an email copy of your objection immediately and we suggest you forward this.

Achairn, Bilbster, Halsary and Causeymire windfarms from Tesco's car park in Wick
Photomontage by Stuart Young Visualisations - Click image for panorama

Halsary Forest, near Spittal

An application by ScottishPower Renewables for the erection of
18 wind turbines has been advertised.

You can still object here

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Lieurary Windfarm from Loch Calder
Photomontage by Stuart Young Visualisations

Lieurary Windfarm, Westfield

An application by Scotrenewables (Wind power) Ltd for the erection of 2 wind turbines
has been re-advertised with supplementary information to the Environmental Statement.

You can still object here

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Durran Wind Farm from new house site at Hilliclay

" … developments should not be permitted where they would have a significant long term
detrimental impact on the amenity of people living nearby …"
National Planning and Policy Guideline 6

Photomontage by Stuart Young Visualisations

Durran Mains Windfarm, Castletown

An application by SSE Generation Ltd for a 13 turbine windfarm at Mains of Durran, Castletown, Caithness was submitted and has recently been followed by an Amendment.
The online objection has been updated accordingly.

You can still object here

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Buolfruich Windfarm near Dunbeath, taken from the Smerral Road end on the A9.
Nothing could be worse than this. Or could it?
Photograph by Stuart Young Visualisations

Dunbeath Wind Farm added - this is much worse!
Photomontage by Stuart Young Visualisations

The proposed turbines appear smaller because they will average 9 km away whereas the existing ones average only 3 km away. They are in fact considerably larger, being 125m high compared with the present ones of only 68m.
Causeymire turbines are just under 100m high.
(Click image for closeup of Dunbeath turbines)

Please note the above photomontage is based on the original application for 22 turbines.

Panoramic view from the picnic area at the east end of Loch Watten
Photomontage by Stuart Young Visualisations - Click image for panorama

Bower Quarry, Watten, Wick

An amended application by John Gunn and Sons Ltd for the erection of one wind turbine
at Bower Quarry has been registered.

You can still object here

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Looking south to Ben Griam Beg - Photo: Ben MacGregor

Strathy South, Sutherland

The application by SSE Generation Ltd. for the construction of a 77-turbine windfarm
at Strathy South, Sutherland, has been registered.

You can still object here

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Developers viewpoint V5 on the A99 at East Clyth.
Photomontage: Stuart Young Visualisations

This is taken from the Environmental Statement Viewpoint 5. The image in the ES shows indistinct turbines. Imagine looking towards the Causewaymire Windfarm from Mybster Crossroads. Then imagine that the turbines are 17 metres taller overall and the sweep of the blades is 12 metres wider. Then imagine putting them between 60 and 120 metres higher up on a hillside above you.

The Burn of Whilk, East Clyth (Yarrows)

A revised application has been submitted for 9 turbines with various other changes.
We hope to post an amended Objection as soon as we have full details but objections to the previous application will still be counted.

You can still object here

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Turbines viewed from the A9 at Spittal - Photomontage by Stuart Young Visualisations

Spittal Hill Windfarm

Highland Council has recommended refusal to the Scottish Government so the matter will now go to Public Local Inquiry.

You can still object here -

Spittal Windfarm Opposition Group

Strathy Forest - Photo: Ben MacGregor