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NO to pylons, NO to wind farm sprawl, NO to the industrialisation of our land

Our countryside is not for sale!

This is an opportinity to send your opinions to Belltown Power before the application is submitted to PEDW.

Even if you’re unsure what to write, it’s worth sending your thoughts by email to waunmaenllywd@belltownpower.com. A simple message such as “I object” will be valuable at this stage.

Your final and most crucial input will be when the planning application is submitted.

Drop-in events:

2 Sept, 12-5pm, Pumsaint Village Hall SA18 8UW

3 Sept, 2-7pm, Elidyr Communities Trust SA20 0NL

This is the last chance to comment before the application goes to Planning and Environment Decisions Wales.

Visit https://bryncadwganenergypark.co.uk/en/ to view documents, plans and submit feedback.

Please see our Call to Action information here (PDF).

Also you can view the Bryn Cadwgan Energy Park development, along with other wind farm proposals in the area, on our interactive map of energy developments.

Once the landscape is industrialised, it cannot be undone!

The wind farm sites announced so far are :

Glyn Cothi, near Brechfa in Carmathenshire, with 27 turbines.

Clocaenog Dau, with 22 turbines, near Ruthin and adjacent to the existing RWE wind farm.

Carreg Wen Wind Farm, Rhondda Cynon Taf, to the south of Aberdare, with 18 turbines.

The CPRW has issued a response to the announcements - https://cprw.org.uk/cprw-responds-to-trydan-gwyrdd-cymrus-wind-farm-announcements/

All three wind farm proposals will be shown on our interactive map of energy developments very soon.

The possibilty of a development here has been known for a long time although with no solid confirmation. It has sometimes been referred to as Pencarreg Mountain wind farm. Bute have not yet published a detailed location plan or layout, although we are aware of preliminary documents. The site is about 5km south of Lampeter.

This follows another recent announcement from Bute for Waun Hesgog Energy Park, a very large proposal on the Ceredigian-Powys border, with up to 37 wind turbines.

Come along and see us!

Our stand - getting ready for visitors.

On Saturday 28th June, eight campaign groups joined forces at the Newtown Outdoor Festival to raise awareness of the huge number of windfarm and pylon proposals threatening the Welsh Heartlands. There were representatives from CPRW, RE-Think, Save Banc Du and Rhiwlas, Protect Glaslyn & Hafren, Caru Teifi, Save Garreg Hir, Wild Wales Trust and Intelligence Research Network.

Many visitors to the stall were shocked by the scale of the proposals and the turbine heights, as demonstrated by the turbine model, made by Barry Hayness from Cellan. Reform Powys County Councillor Iain McIntosh, (Brecon & Radnor), spent a long time listening to our concerns.

The campaign groups were able to share a great deal of information and the weather and location were kind to us!

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) is developing plans to build a new 400kV electricity substation on land off the A484, near Llandyfaelog. The proposed substation is in response to connection requests from National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) and Green GEN Cymru, who are responsible for the twp pylon line schemes through the West Wales countryside. Both pylon lines will terminate at Llandyfaelog. The NGED and Green GEN Cymru 132kV substations will be built at the same location as the NGET 400kV substation.

Two consultation sessions will take place at Llandyfaelog Community Hall on June 25th and July 12th, with an online web event on July 8th. The public can make feedback comments about the substation plan between June 17th until July 15th.

Click here to visit the National Grid project website