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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Adam Forrest

Onshore wind farm ban scrapped in mini-Budget OLD REDIRECTED

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Environmentalists and the renewable industry chiefs have tentatively welcomed the Liz Truss government’s plan to end a de facto ban on onshore windfarms in England.

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget “growth plan” said the government would make sure rules for onshore wind turbines were in line with other energy developments.

Rules that were put in place in 2015 have effectively stopped the construction of any onshore wind farms in the UK in the past seven years.

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