Borders communities fighting against the expansion of windfarms in their area have welcomed a decision by Scottish Government ministers to reject a plan for a sensitive Highland glen near Loch Ness.

This letter from a resident of Heriot was published today in The Herald, on the failure by Xi Engineering to reveal a conflict of interest

The company which is advising both the Scottish government and a windfarm developer did not declare a conflict of interest when bidding for public sector contracts, a Freedom of Information response has revealed.

Scottish Borders communities express relief as Scottish Borders Council unanimously rejects the Scawd Law development

As Chair of Leitholm, Eccles and Birgham Community Council, Bob Hope attended this week’s round table event at the Scottish Parliament organised by Highland Community Councils to discuss the expansion of onshore windfarms across rural Scotland with the Scottish Government. He wasn’t impressed with the Cabinet Secretary Gillian Martin’s response.

Scotsman columnist John McLellan says the Court of Session decision this week to overturn approval of the controversial windfarm at Wull Muir, near the picturesque Borders village of Heriot, illustrates a planning system that is not fit for purpose.

The Scottish Government is running a consultation on whether to increase the current threshold for Scottish Ministers to assess windfarm applications from 50 megawatts (MW) to 100 or 150 MW.

Residents in the Scottish Borders have raised concerns over the consultation by Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN) regarding the grid connection for the proposed Glenburnie windfarm, set to be among the tallest ever constructed onshore in Scotland.

Communities in the Scottish Borders have welcomed the unanimous decision by the planning committee of Scottish Borders Council to object to Scawd Law wind farm.

A column today in The Scotsman by John McLellan discusses the hypocrisy at the heart of the planning system. Rural campaigners want windfarm planning decisions to take the ‘cumulative effect’ of such developments into account, but this has always been rejected by the Scottish government, despite it being a factor in other major planning decisions

Community councillors from the Scottish Borders have reacted with dismay as their concerns were dismissed by the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action, Gillian Martin MSP, at a roundtable event in Holyrood today.

Community leaders have welcomed the decision to overturn Scottish Government permission for a windfarm which would have radically changed the historic landscape of Eildon in the Scottish Borders.