Pontefract Windfarm Action Group

Darrington Feaste & Fayre

Stand before fayre opened

Pontefract Windfarm Action Group (PWAG) members had a display stand at the 2007 Darrington Feaste & Fayre held on Saturday 23 June 2007. The Feaste & Fayre was another huge success for the village and very well attended with visitors coming from miles away.Hundreds of people came to the stand to learn more about the application by Banks Developments to erect six 125m wind turbines on Went Edge between Darrington and Wentbridge.If planning permission is granted and these enormous wind turbines are erected they will be some of the tallest in Britain, taller even than Ferrybridge power station!

Standard objection letter now available

Objection letter A standard letter is now available for you to download and send to Wakefield MDC to object to the proposed application to erect a wind farm in Darrington.

Further letters are being developed and will be available shortly, so please keep checking our website. To download this objection letter please click here

Plans for Saddleworth Moor wind farm scrapped

BBC News reported on Saturday 12 May 2007 that plans for a controversial wind farm scheme near Saddleworth Moor have finally been scrapped. German Energy Company, E ON, had been applying for permission to build seven giant turbines on Denshaw Moor for more than four years.