Cornwall Council's east sub-area planning committee rejected the proposals last year, but the decision was reversed by the strategic planning committee last October. subject to certain criteria being met relating to safeguarding local bird life and concerns over interference with air traffic control systems. However, a report prepared for councillors said "neither the communications issue nor the bird issue have been resolved in any satisfactory way".
Loacal people were adamant and vociferous in their opposition to the scheme due to it's proximity to the Bodmin Moor Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and the North Cornwall Coast AONB and Heritage Coast.
Ted Venn, of the Cornish branch of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE), welcomed the decision. "If this had been built there would have been 61 turbines to the north of Bodmin Moor and that is what people were objecting to."
Source - This is Cornwall
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