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Scout Moor Windfarm (extension)

Application Refused36.8 MWChecked 6 October 2026Last changed in the dataset 28 July 2017

Technology
Onshore wind
Capacity
36.8 MW
Status
Application Refused (Secretary of State - Refusal)
Operator or applicant
Peel Holdings and UUGE
Location
Land at Scout Moor , off Edenfield Road , Rochdale, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Planning authority
Rossendale
Planning application
2015/0112
Turbines
16, 115 m to tip

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  • 22 April 2015 Planning application submitted
  • 30 November 2015 Secretary of State intervened
  • 6 July 2017 Planning permission refused
  • 6 July 2017 Refused by the Secretary of State

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The register holds 54 incidents at onshore wind farms in the United Kingdom, 22 of them fires, and 297 worldwide. Counts of incidents in published reporting, not rates.

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