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Scoping Opinion Request	PA10/07855
Screening Opinion Request	PA10/06196
OS Reference	SW 140840
Company	Community Windpower Ltd
Turbines	16
Total Capacity	50 MW
Hub Height	80m
Blade Diameter	92.5m
Blade Tip Height	126m

The name of the project is Davidstow Community Windfarm. Despite its name, this project is not proposed by, and nor is it for the benefit of, the community of Davidstow. It is an industrial wind power station that is being imposed upon us by a company based in Cheshire. We feel that the use of the name, both for the project and the name of the company itself, is misleading and an insult to the people of Davidstow

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Animations Roughtor Showery Tor Alex Tor Logan Rock Tremail Turning Camelford Museum Tyland Road

Community Windpower have now submitted a Scoping Request and a Scoping Report   PDF   MSWord This time the proposal is for 16 turbines with a total height of 126.25m to the tips of the blades. This is 415ft in old money and from where they will be positioned, they'll be higher than Roughtor and a just few metres short of Brown Willy! There will also be an extra smaller turrbine. The profit for one year (£30,000) from this small turbine would be given to Camelford The site is on the edge of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, partly within an Area of Great Landscape Value, and immediately adjacent to a Site of Special Scientific interest Davidstow is sometimes described as a brown field site because it was used as an aerodrome during the war. Many people think that the area should be preserved as a memorial to the service personnel who served here. Click for Davidstow Airfield & Cornwall at War Museum Starlings coming in to roost in Davidstow woods There is great concern about the threat to the fabulous birdlife, including our famous starling clouds in winter whose numbers have been counted to around one million birds. Then there’s the 100s of geese and golden plover, a large rookery, ravens and raptors. Other wildlife include rare bees and we will organise a survey of bats in the area to find out the species and roosting sites. Flora include orchids and drosera (sundews).