On 1 June 2025 the Walshaw Turbines Research Group (WTRG) sent a letter before action to Christian Egal, Project Director of Calderdale Energy Park. The letter can be read on the WTRG website here, and the paper giving the extensive evidence is available here.
The work of the WTRG may be familiar to some in their long series of blogs on Calderdale Wind Farm Ltd, published by Mark Avery, prominent conservationist and former Conservation Director of the RSPB.
The legal letter requires that the public consultation into CEP that began on 29 April 2025 and ends on 10 June 2025 be postponed.
WRTG campaigner Nick MacKinnon said: ‘Many people who have attended the public exhibitions at Hebden Bridge, Oxenhope and Trawden have been amazed and angered by the vagueness of the proposals, which the consultants themselves call “only the snapshot of a process”, “a map showing where some of the turbines might be roughly “, “merely indicative”.’.
The maps that support the proposal have many errors. The hydrology map does not even show the correct flow of water out of Greave Clough, one of the areas where CEP is most likely to cause a catastrophic flood. There is a turbine overhanging the Pennine Way and another inaccessible deep in Black Clough.
On the launch day WTRG made Christian Egal correct all the maps, which he did on 1 May. Then WTRG made him correct a map of peat depths again which he did on 2 May. Every copy of the printed Consultation Brochure had to have a correction sticker inserted by hand. CWF Ltd say these corrections were “typographic”. They were in fact further evidence of chaos in the run-up to the sham “Public Consultation”.
The Gunning Principles state how a public consultation must be conducted. The WTRG lawyers say that the CEP public consultation has failed abjectly to meet the required principles.
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