DATES have been set for the first hearing in the case between a developer who wants to build dozens of turbines on common grazings and the crofters planning to put up community-owned turbines in the same area. The Scottish Land Court announced the hearing between Stornoway Wind Farm Limited – Lewis Wind Power’s planned scheme for 36 turbines on common grazings – and the island’s residents who want their own wind farm there. Spokesperson for Stornoway township Sandwick North Street, Rhoda Mackenzie, said: “We are doing this for the benefit of the Western Isles and that’s what’s focused everybody here over the years. That’s what’s driving them.”
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