Peel Energy to unveil detailed plans for 21 turbines on Frodsham Marshes (From Runcorn and Widnes World)

Peel Energy to unveil detailed plans for 21 turbines on Frodsham Marshes

12:30pm Monday 23rd November 2009

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DETAILED plans to build a giant wind farm on a bird sanctuary will be unveiled next week.

Peel Energy hopes to erect 21 turbines on Frodsham marshes, overlooking Runcorn and Widnes on the Mersey estuary.

Exhibitions are being held in Main Street Church, Frodsham, on Wednesday, November 25, from 12 noon until 8pm and at Helsby community centre on Saturday, November 28, from 10am to 3pm.

Richard Dibley, Peel Energy’s senior development manager, said: “We are keen to engage with local people from an early stage.

“Nobody knows the area better than those who live and work there and we want to hear from them how the wind farm can be accommodated beside their communities.”

Proposed layout plans and artist’s impressions of how the turbines will be seen from various viewpoints will be on display.

Details of the extensive studies being carried out at the site will also be available.

If approved, developers claim the farm could meet the average electricity needs of around 30,000 households in Cheshire.

Mr Dibley added: “We believe this is a good location for a wind farm.

“Our studies have shown that the site is sufficiently windy. It has excellent electrical grid and transport connections and turbines can be accommodated within the landscape as well as alongside important envirovironmental interests.”

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