The Government is going to make wind farm developments in England faster and easier to complete. It is taking action because no new wind farms have been approved in the past seven years.
Developers were forced to address local concerns about a new wind farm, and just one person could hold up an entire project. The rules that were put in place in 2015 have effectively stopped the construction of any new onshore wind farms in the UK since then.
The rules currently in place put the onus on councils to map out areas that would be suitable for wind development, and most simply did not have the resources to do this. Such permission is not needed for any other type of development.
