The 2012 DTOG Objection Report was submitted to the case officer at Torridge District Council on Tuesday, 13th March, 2012 and was published on the TDC website on Wednesday, 21st March.  It comprises 221-pages across thirteen sections. It can be downloaded as separate pdf files from the link on the left of this page.

Bolsterstone submitted the revised application to Torridge District Council (TDC) on 21st December, 2011, in the hope that local people would be too busy or preoccupied with the Christmas and New Year celebrations to write letters of objection in the three week response slot.  This developer tried the same trick with the 2008 application.  It didn't work then and it didn't work this time either.  Last time TDC simply extended the response period.  This time the validation of the application was delayed by TDC.

On 1st March, 2012, TDC finally backed down from its ill-advised stance and published outline details of the application on the TDC website.  The validation was backdated to 13th January, 2012, and the application was inserted unannounced into the lists for the week beginning 9th January.  This resulted in the determination deadline date being set at 13th April.  The consultation response period was set between 1st March and 22nd March.  The case officer is Mr. Tim Westwell.

Bolsterstone obviously did not expect any such delay because it posted copies of the application documents to Holsworthy Library where they have been available for inspection since 5th January.  As a result, DTOG has been able to analyse the application and prepare a 221-page objection report for submission to TDC.  This report will be available for download from this website soon after it appears on the TDC website.  Meanwhile, the latest DTOG newsletter for March 2012, giving details of how to object, is available for download now.

The noise monitoring was completed at 6 locations around the site during October and November 2010.  Now, one year since the anemometer was erected, a landscape consultant is working in the area and will be visiting local properties and viewpoints in the week beginning 17th October to take stock photographs for the production of photomontages.