Wharrels Hill, Bothel

OPERATIONAL

Application 2/2001/0008 was submitted to Allerdale Borough Council on 3 January 2001. Planning permission was refused on 23 April 2001 but the Applicant appealed and, after a Public Inquiry, the Appeal was allowed and planning permission granted on 19 June 2002. The wind farm was commissioned during the summer of 2007.

For more information and pictures, please click on the following links:-

Visit Cumbria – Wharrels Hill wind farm page – Visit Cumbria is an independent guide to Cumbria and the English Lake District.

Problems of living near a modern wind farm – Evidence given by Bothel resident Mr Ronald Williams to the Public Inquiry into the proposed Sillfield wind farm.