Belfast·LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023)·Page 195·Policy ITU 4
Wind energy development – additional requirements
Wind energy applications must additionally demonstrate that development will not have unacceptable impact on visual amenity or landscape character through turbine number, scale, size or siting, and must consider cumulative impacts of existing and permitted turbines.
In addition to above, applications for wind energy development will also be required to demonstrate all of the following:
f. That the development will not have an unacceptable impact on visual amenity or landscape character through: the number, scale, size or siting of turbines;
g. That the development has taken into consideration the cumulative impact of existing wind turbines, those which have permissions and those that are currently the subject of valid but undetermined applications;
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