June 2025 – Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
15 posts published by Green__Jenny during June 2025| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
15 posts published by Green__Jenny during June 2025| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
10 posts published by Green__Jenny during September 2025| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
In 2023 we rejected Walshaw Moor Estate as an inappropriate site for the proposed windfarm. We still do. Nothing that … More| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
How do you assess the impact of something you can’t define? How is the Scoping Report Approach to Environmental Impact … More| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
For someone living in Hebden Bridge, the main concern about the Hydrology and Peat Chapter is how the Applicant is … More| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
In responding to Chapter 2, Planning Policy Context, Ban the Burn has focussed on its overview of current and draft … More| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
Here’s our draft response. Chapter 1. Introduction The Introduction refers to three topics which are central to Ban the Burn’s … More| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
There are less than two weeks left before the deadline for statutory consultees’ responses to Calderdale Energy Park’s Scoping Report. … More| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
This is an update on some of the Ban the Burn August campaign actions. Thanks to everyone who sent emails and the Councillors who’ve responded to them. This has been a useful start to making …| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
3 posts published by Green__Jenny during May 2025| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
11 posts published by Green__Jenny during January 2024| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
8 posts published by Green__Jenny during August 2025| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
As far as Ban the Burn understand Planning Inspectorate Guidance (outlined below), Parish and Town Councils are statutory consultees for Nationally … More| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
The Calder Valley MP has told Ban the Burn! he has evidence that it’s ok to build windfarms on protected … More| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
We’ve barely had a chance yet to look at the Calderdale Energy Park Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping Report – it’s … More| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
A summary for anyone who may be new to the proposed Calderdale Energy Park on Walshaw Moor. We all know what a wind farm is, and when the developers rebranded their original Calderdale Wind Farm pr…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
7 posts published by Green__Jenny during July 2025| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
What you can do week by week in August to support the campaign to ban windfarms on protected peatland in England Page 1_Campaign call to action leaflet_Aug 2025_v1Download If you’re one of th…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
Defra’s consultation on their proposed Land Use Framework is now live online. It runs until April 25th. Defra intends that the Land Use Framework will incorporate 30 by 30, the UK government&…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
Calderdale Wind Farm Ltd seems to have taken down their entire website apart from a new page dated today – 18th October 2024. (Although it turns out the old website is still lurking elsewhere…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
Soon after Parliamentary petition 701290 to ban windfarms on protected peatland in England passed 10k signatures in early June, the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero emailed its obligatory…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
But we have to get them tabled first! In July the Peatland Alliance of Ban the Burn, Forus Tree and Upper Calderdale Wildlife Network asked Nature Minister Mary Creagh to support our proposed Plann…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
The first meeting of the House of Lords Planning and Infrastructure Bill Committee is on Thursday 17th July. The Committee is open to all members of the House of Lords. It is where they go through …| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
7 minutes read time Ban the Burn, ForUs Tree and Upper Calderdale Wildlife Network have just written to the Nature Minister, Mary Creagh MP. We have outlined our worry that Defra’s application of b…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
We asked some peat-friendly peers to speak up to protect blanket bog in the House of Lords’ second reading of the Planning and Infrastructure BIll [As Brought From Commons]. Thanks to ev…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
We wrote to Ed Miliband because the blanket bog can’t. The bog is on the same side as Ed Miliband and net zero. For thousands of years, blanket bog has been the biggest natural climate regula…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
Thanks to everyone on social media who between you have come up with 32 environmentally-friendly peers to ask to support our Planning and Infrastructure Bill amendments in the House of Lords. All 3…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
This blog post looks at what we know and what we don’t know about the corporate players and the money side of the proposed Calderdale Wind Farm. Why does this matter? In case this ‘test…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
If you’re looking for info about responding to Calderdale Energy Park’s pretty rubbish non-statutory consultation, you’ll find Stronger Together suggestions over on this webpage. …| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
MPs have met in Parliament with members of a West Yorkshire-based campaign to ban windfarms on protected peatland in England. MPs from across the UK who attended the 29th April event included Josh …| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
This is about a 9 minute read. Why does it matter? Wadsworth Parish Council has been told that Calderdale Windfarm’s revised Scoping Report is due in May 2025. To prepare for the pre-applicat…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
Big thanks to the handful of MPs who are so far the only ones bothered about the lack of protection for irreplaceable habitats in the face of the Government’s planning reforms that are now going th…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
We have been banging on for nearly a year now about the need for the Government’s planning reforms for big onshore wind farms to include a ban on building them on protected peatland. And we h…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
Info about Hilltop parish council meetings this spring will be added as we find out about them. Oxenhope Village Council Oxenhope Village Council met on 12th March 2025 but there doesn’t seem…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
Keighley and Ilkley MP Robbie Moore received a pretty uninformative answer from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Minister Michael Shanks MP, when he asked what assessment his Departm…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
Here is the response from Stronger Together to Stop Calderdale Windfarm to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government public consultation on its Planning Reform Working Paper –…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
Here are some first thoughts about a Calderdale landscape scale blanket bog restoration programme, as an alternative to the proposed windfarm. It is a first step in thinking through the possibiliti…| Save And Restore Walshaw Moor
