Guest blog – Boundary Mill and A59/A56 magic roundabouts of CEP (240 MW) by Nick MacKinnon

Photo: Lydia MacKinnon

Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won the 2013 Forward Prize. His topical verse and satire appears in the Spectator, and his puzzles and problems in the Sunday Times and American Mathematical Monthly. Email: nipmackinnon@gmail.com 

The magic roundabouts. Walshaw Turbines Research Group

 

The magic roundabouts:

Boundary Mill (SD 8753239780 ///tracks.moderated.revised) and

Broughton A59/A56 (///trails.resonated.dots)

This blog was sent to CWF Ltd for comment on 27 June 2026. Once comments are received, the analysis will be sent to Mustapha Hajjar, CEO of Algihaz Holding.

Calderdale Energy Park casts its shadow well beyond Calderdale. Stronger Together have used the evidence of recent blogs to alert the North Yorkshire local councils, who are now looking at the granite delivery model set out in the PEIR. Because CWF Ltd incompetently gave the wrong email address on their banners and in their brochure, the consultation has been extended to 8 July 2026, giving an opportunity for the unconsulted of North Yorkshire to comment on the 411,000 tonnes of granite that, like the shopkeeper in Mr Benn, suddenly, as if by magic, appears at the A59/A56 roundabout near Broughton. The 205,000 tonnes of granite at Richard Bannister’s Boundary Mill roundabout in Colne is equally unexpected (if you had only read CWF Ltd publications) but more explicable. It may be recycled railway ballast delivered by rail to the Leyland sidings at J1 of the M65, for example.

Readers will notice a pivot in this blog, from CWF Ltd to Algihaz Holding, the Saudi-based owners. It is difficult to get purchase on a company like CWF Ltd that is so careless of its reputation. We must in future make sure that our analysis gets home to Algihaz, a reputable company, who may be unaware of the mess their subsidiary has made. Calderdale Council’s overall conclusion is that the statutory consultation (now extended because of further startling incompetence) “has not been carried out on an adequate basis.”

For now, we say “Au revoir!” to Christian Egal “the Inspector Clouseau of renewables”; “Mar sin leibh an-dràsta!” to Donald ‘Transparent’ Mackay and “Catch you later!” to the incombustible Ashley ‘Asbestos’ Robinson. Let me place on record how sweet and gifted this trio are, and how sorry I was to say to them at Haworth that, “Your talents are wasted on this turkey” and “I have now finished checking your PEIR.” They looked glum.

The continued influence of Christopher ‘440 Kelvin Volts’ Wilson on the proposal may be as incomprehensible to Algihaz Holding as is it to us. As the CWF Ltd FAQ puts it:

Has Christopher Wilson had any involvement with the project since resigning as a director in March 2022?

Christopher Wilson resigned as a director and as a Person with Significant Control of Calderdale Windfarm Ltd in March 2022, as reflected in the statutory Companies House filings. These changes relate only to the company’s formal corporate structure and reporting requirements. Mr Wilson has not held a governance or ownership role in Calderdale Windfarm Ltd since that date. However, he continues to be involved in the Calderdale Energy Park project in a professional capacity, separate from the company’s statutory officer or PSC positions. His involvement relates to project specific support rather than the management or control of the company.

Pretty lethal. Is poor old 440 Kelvin Volts really the subject of frequently asked questions? Is that itself a Frequently Asked Question? The last time I asked him a question, Cavendish Consulting read all these blogs and found a threat to the bodily integrity of Muttley, the cartoon dog. CWF Ltd then refused to engage with my questions about the aggregates until all references to the Wacky Races were removed. That was in September 2024. In October 2024 Robbie Moore MP, who had made no threats to Muttley, Pluto, or even Scooby Doo (who may irritate even that most level-headed of parliamentarians) asked the same questions and got no reply, perhaps because Kevin Whitmore was busy scraping the nonsense off the CWF website, which in the end meant giving it the full Shake-and-Vac.

Kevin Whitmore’s Shake-and-Vac: 400 kV and it was Rochdale, not Padiham. CWF Ltd

Still, it is useful for us to have the Tom Bombadil figure of Christopher Wilson as “Eldest”, linking the first age Calderdale Wind Farm “in the dark under the stars when it was fearless” to Sauron’s Energy Park. Had Christopher Wilson worried less about Muttley, and more about the questions, Algihaz would be in 616,000 tonnes less trouble right now.

WTRG has always engaged in this “positive collaboration” with CWF Ltd that the Planning Inspectorate “encouraged” CWF Ltd to reciprocate, on 26 January 2026. We tell them their problems as soon as we find them and we have two thank you letters from Christian Egal and a “Good spot on the turbine locations!” from Donald Mackay.

Of course, the real trouble on Walshaw Moor is the internationally designated SPA and SAC, and the internationally renowned Brontë Moor. These are complex aspects that WTRG and many others will develop further, in the necessary civil service patois, should the DCO submission be judged fit for examination in the 28-day gate in November 2026. For now, the incompetence and granite are objective and indisputable deficits that people, councils, MPs, journalists and the BBC can grasp easily, which help give them the confidence to draw conclusions about the adequacy of the whole proposal. The incompetence and granite also allow Algihaz Holding to get a fix on their subsidiary, using the deficits as a control on what they are being told by Christopher ‘440 Kelvin Volts’ Wilson. The project has proved too complex for Christian Egal to direct accurately, and it is likely that CEO Mustapha Hajjar will need the incompetence and granite as a guiderail on Walshaw Moor, while he ponders the future of CWF Ltd. Abandoning his £15 million sunk cost may be a cheap price to escape the humiliations ahead. “Rather an end in horror than horror without end.”

For the attention of Mustapha Hajjar, CEO of Algihaz Holding

An analysis of the problems that CWF Ltd are having with regard to construction aggregates for Calderdale Energy Park

This analysis is by the Walshaw Turbines Research Group (WTRG). Readers needing to assess the accuracy and penetration of the shadow audits undertaken by WTRG might ask the Project Director Christian Egal about the errors notified to the Planning Inspectorate (PINS) by WTRG in the PEIR turbine locations; in the PEIR peat slide hazard analysis on Crow Hill; in the Scoping Report; and in the maps on CEP Launch Day.

The significance of the WTRG analysis of the inadequate due diligence by Algihaz in November 2021, with regard to the onsite rock, was first understood by CWF Ltd on 17 May 2025 and accepted by CWF Ltd in a webcast statement on 21 May 2025. It is the policy of WTRG to put their analysis in the public domain, in a spirit of positive collaboration, and it is all published by Dr Mark Avery, the former Conservation Director of the RSPB. PINS has “encouraged” CWF Ltd to engage in that same “positive collaboration” with WTRG, and others, in logged s51 advice given to CWF Ltd at the meeting of 26 January 2026.

Calderdale Energy Park is a complex proposal. It is hoped this account of simple but serious deficits is useful to Algihaz Holding in achieving a grasp of the degree to which their subsidiary CWF Ltd has already fallen short of the standards of their founder, Saeed Ali Al-Angari.

  1. CWF Ltd, a subsidiary of Algihaz Holding, had not consulted any community about the 616,000 tonnes of granite they announced for the first time on 8 April 2026. In particular, they had not consulted any community in North Yorkshire, yet their traffic assessment has 411,000 tonnes of granite coming from North Yorkshire and 205,000 tonnes going through Colne, past Boundary Mill. The traffic assessment relies on assumptions that were not consistently disclosed through the consultation process. This may have limited the ability of communities to understand or respond to HGV impacts at earlier stages
  2. Algihaz should have discovered they would need granite, in vast quantity, during the due diligence before the signing of an agreement between Algihaz and Richard Bannister, the owner of Walshaw Moor, on 11 November 2021. Richard Bannister would have told Algihaz of the problem had he been asked directly, as suitable aggregates are required in the repair of the estate tracks. Had Algihaz read the 2017 agreement between Natural England and their counterparty Richard Bannister, they would have known there was an aggregate problem on Walshaw Moor, and a single question asked of Richard Bannister would have found that the estate imported blue granite for the tracks. Algihaz did not carry out adequate due diligence with respect to the aggregates in November 2021.
Land Registry title entry for some of Walshaw Moor, dating the end of the Algihaz due diligence to 11 November 2021. WTRG
  1. Had Algihaz discovered the weakness of the onsite rock, and that Natural England required Mr Bannister to use an inert rock (not limestone, which is a sphagnum poison) to build his estate tracks, it is very likely that they would have instructed CWF Ltd to find an alternative site.
Walshaw Moor Catchment Restoration Agreement 2017-2042. Deep peat in England is now > 30 cm. WTRG

The failure of the engineering and legal due diligence teams to discover in November 2021 that the onsite rock is too weak and imported aggregates must be inert is, prima facie, negligence. WTRG will be glad to support Algihaz Holding in any claim they may enter against the due diligence team they employed, or against Richard Bannister if he had a duty, during due diligence, to disclose matters that might be relevant in the development of Walshaw Moor as a wind farm.

  1. The 2017 agreement should have formed part of an adequate due diligence process in November 2021. CWF Ltd should have had alternatives under the habitat regulations because Walshaw Moor is an SPA and SAC, one of only twenty such doubly designated sites in England. Suitable alternative sites would not have suffered the huge cost of the granite deliveries, the ecological damage of the deliveries, and the planning difficulties of importing a vast quantity of alien material through inevitable pinch-points far away from the site. The alternative sites would also not have involved the internationally renowned Brontë Moor. The only site in England as extreme as Walshaw Moor on the SAC/SPA/Heritage axes is Ashdown Forest, the location of The House at Pooh Corner.
First edition dust jacket of The House at Pooh Corner, a key comparator in the assessment of Alternatives. WTRG
  1. Given Algihaz’s inadequate due diligence about the aggregates, the Alternatives chapter will be intensively scrutinised in examination and at judicial review if necessary. Algihaz must expect to hear much more about The House at Pooh Corner. There is no translation into Arabic, yet, of this difficult second volume, whose plot often relates to wind speed, but Wayni al-Dabdub is available from the Ishi Press. Algihaz are advised that the Disney episode Winnie-the-Pooh and the Blustery Day (the corporation purchased the rights in 2001 for $350 million, equivalent to $660 million in 2026) does not adequately represent the problematic nature of Ashdown Forest as an alternative industrial complex.
  2. Algihaz and CWF Ltd then failed to discover the need for granite for another three years and five months. Instead, they stated they would use the onsite rock to construct the access tracks if it was suitable. Finally, they were given (by WTRG on 17 May 2025) irrefutable evidence that the onsite rock, and the gritstone aggregates available in wider West Yorkshire and Lancashire, were “too weak and porous, and susceptible to frost” to be suitable for road stone or technical concrete. This evidence consists of the notes printed on BGS Sheet 77 Huddersfield, and the aggregate assessments published annually by the five West Yorkshire councils. The facts are known by every reputable local builder, and by Richard Bannister’s gamekeepers. It is because it is so simple to acquire this information that the Algihaz due diligence must have been inadequate in November 2021.
Notes to BGS Sheet 77 Huddersfield. WTRG after British Geological Survey
  1. CWF Ltd then made a verbal admission of their aggregate problem on their Webinar (21 May 2025 43:46) in a statement by lead consultant Donald Mackay that begins “As you can imagine…”.

Not only could the communities in North Yorkshire and East Lancashire not be expected to “imagine” the need for 616,000 tonnes of granite, but Algihaz and CWF Ltd had themselves failed to “imagine” this material fact for more than three years. Algihaz had also failed to “imagine” this when they performed so-called “due diligence” inadequately in November 2021. All the Algihaz due diligence team had to do was ask Richard Bannister about his estate’s track materials.

“As you can imagine…” contradicted the only written statement by CWF Ltd that the wind farm would be built of on-site aggregates supplemented by “quarries east of the site”. The people of North Yorkshire did not need to “imagine” the aggregates because in September 2023, CWF Ltd said the aggregates would be West Yorkshire gritstone, mostly won on site, and this was the published policy until 8 April 2026.

  1. CWF Ltd should have re-run the Non-statutory Consultation with a transparent statement that a huge quantity of granite would have to be imported. They failed to do so. WTRG sent a legal letter to CWF Ltd (1 June, replied 5 June 2025) stating that this failure made the Non-statutory Consultation prima facie unlawful under Gunning Principle 2 (‘intelligent consideration’). CWF Ltd answered the letter without engaging at all with the facts of the aggregates. They then failed to rerun the consultation. Algihaz should have insisted that the non-statutory consultation was re-run. It was not difficult to estimate the quantity required for the proposal as then configured: WTRG estimated 600,000 tonnes on 5 May 2025. The approximate quantity and aggregate type should have been found by Algihaz due diligence in November 2021.
  2. Algihaz and CWF Ltd then had a third opportunity to initiate consultation about the granite with the affected communities with their Scoping Report (1 September 2025). Not only was the granite not mentioned in the Scoping Report, but there were 24 separate road-numbering errors and dozens of very serious errors of other kinds, entirely unprecedented in any similar document for an onshore wind farm of 100 MW+. It was impossible for anyone to disentangle the aggregate position in the Scoping Report because no aggregate type (granite/limestone) was mentioned, and the roads were so scrambled that the M65 often appears as the M56 while the A646 can be the A644 and even the impossible A464.
CEP Scoping Report screenshot. For M56 read M65. For A6063 read A6033. For A464 read A646. The A464 runs parallel to Watling Street. There are 24 such errors. WTRG
The Planning Inspectorate indicate the road numbering errors in the Scoping Opinion. PINS

The Planning Inspectorate drew CWF Ltd’s attention to the extensive list of road-numbering errors supplied in the Stronger Together response to the Scoping Report and found by WTRG. It is not known what measures Algihaz took to censure their subsidiary CWF Ltd for the wholly unprecedented incompetence of the Scoping Report, which includes references to the river Kelvin running through the site, maps of three different turbine layouts and a hydrology map best described as “child-like”: as well as 13 positive errors (missing tunnels and sluices, randomly-selected watercourses, many with the wrong names) it lacks the turbine positions, OS grid, and any indication of relief. It may emerge during examination, or at judicial review that Algihaz did not censure CWF Ltd for the Scoping Report incompetence, indicating that systemic incompetence is acceptable in its subsidiaries, in contradiction of its mission statement.

River Kelvin. CEP Scoping Report screenshot. WTRG
  1. In the PEIR (8 April 2026) Algihaz and CWF Ltd finally admitted what should have been known to them on 11 November 2021. The onsite rock could only supply weak bulk fill and 616,000 tonnes of non-calcareous hard stone (i.e. not limestone) would have to be imported from beyond Yorkshire and Lancashire. Three consultations (September 2023, April 2025, September 2025) had passed without this fact being indicated. The only written statement prior to 8 April 2026 was that the wind farm would be built of onsite gritstone, supplemented by Halifax gritstone quarries to the east.
  2. The PEIR has multiple serious errors that have all been discovered by the public during the statutory consultation. Some errors found by WTRG in their shadow audit have been notified. Other aspects, more complex, have been noted and reserved for the examination, should that prove necessary. The errors used in the present analysis are deliberately simple. They are to allow CEO Mustapha Hajjar, the BBC, and other journalists, to get their bearings in a complex proposal.
  3. The PEIR (Appendix 14-1) has a traffic assessment by Pell Frischmann, a reputable company. The 616,000 tonnes of granite is modelled as delivered to the western site entrance on the Lancashire Moor Road in 30800 HGVs, each carrying 20 tonnes. The origins of the granite are not stated in the traffic assessment, but Pell Frischmann were nonetheless able to attribute the granite HGV traffic to particular routes in their model. Only the routes for month 21 are given, but since the granite deliveries are modelled as flat 3850 (two-way) HGV movements per month for 16 months (Table 10), we must assume that the granite distribution is the same in all 16 months. The granite HGVs are shown (Table 11) as 74 on M65 at Burnley and 148 on A56 from west of Skipton to Kelbrook. The 74 HGVs on the M65 go via the Boundary Mill roundabout and through Colne, while the 148 HGVs follow the A56 through Broughton, Earby, Foulridge and Kelbrook and other settlements on the A56. The routes are specified by Pell Frischmann’s use of DfT checkpoint data for existing traffic flows.
  4. Not only had this granite not been mentioned until 8 April 2026, but its movement and origin remains unexplained in the body of the PEIR. Pell Frischmann must have been given some assumptions about granite sources to develop the traffic assessment, but those assumptions are not transparent in Chapter 14.
  5. However, in footnote 48 of the Materials and Waste (Ch 22) of the PEIR is an indication of an explanation for the granite distribution. It is suggested that the granite “may” be delivered to rail heads and Leyland and Horton “may” be used. WTRG spoke to Donald Mackay at the Hebden Bridge consultation about both rail heads, and his statements show that both had received his attention. “I have used Leyland before.” “Horton can be used as a receiving depot. All it needs is some bulldozers.” This statement about Horton is incorrect on multiple technical and planning grounds.

Prima facie, the unstated assumption for the traffic assessment is “205,000 tonnes of granite by rail to Leyland and 411,000 tonnes of granite by rail to Horton.”

  1. Since no other explanation of the assumptions in the traffic assessment is given, communities in East Lancashire and North Yorkshire can only assume that the Pell Frischmann assumptions are:

33% of the granite (205,000 tones) is delivered to the rail head at Leyland (J1 of M65) and trucked through the Boundary Mill roundabout in Colne at 37 HGVs (per day) with the same 37 empty HGVs returning by the same route.

67% of the granite (411,000 tonnes) is delivered by rail to the Horton-in-Ribblesdale sidings owned by Heidelberg where it is somehow transferred to 74 HGVs (per day) and driven to the CEP site through Settle, Gargrave, Coniston Cold, Broughton, Earby and Kelbrook. The 74 empty HGVs return the same way, giving the specified 148 HGV movements.

  1. It is necessary and relevant to observe the conflict of interest for the Walshaw Moor owner Richard Bannister, since he also owns the huge and commercially successful Boundary Mill outlet at the M65 roundabout in Colne. No statement justifying the 33% M65/67% A56 allocations has been made to clarify this conflict of interest.

The conflict of interest will inevitably receive intensive scrutiny should the proposal be accepted for examination; and be a factor put before the court should judicial review of the decision by the Secretary of State be necessary. To clear the air, the agreements between Algihaz and Richard Bannister should be made public. At judicial review, the agreements will be made public if they are shown to be relevant.

Delivering 67% of granite on the A56 through North Yorkshire obviously reduces the amount going past Boundary Mill, yet the Boundary Mill delivery route is much simpler (though unconsulted) by the M65 from Leyland. Prima facie, 67% of the granite is being routed via the Dales (where there is no granite, no motorway and no receiving depot) to reduce the amount of granite passing Boundary Mill to a third of its potential maximum.

  1. There are huge technical and planning obstacles to all this hitherto undisclosed granite, but particularly to the 411,000 tonnes on the A56.
  2. a) Even if Horton is not the rail head (despite footnote 48 and Donald Mackay’s extensive and detailed defence of Horton as a rail head at the Hebden Bridge consultation) the traffic assessment has an unconsulted daily granite convoy on the A56 of 74 loaded HGVs and 74 empty HGVs.
  3. b) Horton is not consented as a receiving depot for aggregates. Its consented, and celebrated, purpose is to remove lorries from the Dales’ roads and export limestone by rail. It is neither configured, nor consented as a receiving depot for 74 lorries per day to carry imported granite through the dales, with 74 empty returns. These vehicles will be three minutes apart.
  4. c) Neither YDNPA nor North Yorkshire Council has been approached nor consulted about the implications.
  5. The proposal laid out in the PEIR imposes an unconsulted burden on the communities of North Yorkshire (411,000 tonnes) and Colne (205,000 tonnes) for the failure of Algihaz to do adequate due diligence in November 2021. Imposing such a burden on the communities of East Lancashire and North Yorkshire runs entirely counter to the mission statement of Algihaz, who are a reputable company. By contrast, CWF Ltd had no reputation at inception, and subsequent errors have caused the company to lose reputation. The reputation of Algihaz has already been damaged by the behaviour of their incompetent vehicle CWF Ltd. Algihaz and CWF Ltd have been caught scrambling for granite following their inadequate due diligence in November 2021.
  6. It must be noted that the absurdity of the “Horton” option may lead to the granite defaulting to 100% Colne. This causes a tripling of the impact on Colne. In all events, the granite will inevitably cause unconsulted impacts on the community of Laneshaw Bridge. The alien granite will inevitably cause unconsulted impacts to the internationally renowned heritage and internationally designated habitats of Walshaw Moor.
  7. The mission statement of Algihaz is shown below.
Algihaz mission statement. Algihaz Holding

The performance of CWF Ltd cannot have been part of a “best-in-class” partnership. CWF Ltd repeatedly demonstrated unacceptable incompetence, wholly unprecedented in the sector. CWF Ltd have not exhibited “robust local capability”; their performance has been frail, desk-based, distant cut-and-paste, and thus has been subjected to justified public mockery.

The “passion and dedication” of Algihaz, who are a reputable company, was not enough to prevent inadequate due diligence in November 2021 when they signed the agreement with Richard Bannister.

The “demonstrated track record” of Algihaz now includes their partnership with CWF Ltd.

“Long-term and trusted relationships” have not been formed; the incompetence has been so great that CWF Ltd find themselves constantly exposed by external audit; nothing CWF Ltd say can be “taken on trust”; everything CWF Ltd say must be checked on the ground. Much of it has been and found wanting.

  1. Algihaz should now insist that their vehicle CWF Ltd withdraws the PEIR. This will protect the integrity of Algihaz, whose Environment, Social and Governance standards state:
Algihaz ESG statement. Algihaz Holding

The present turbine layout was designed without reference to the huge quantity of granite which must be imported to Walshaw Moor. Algihaz failed to “minimize environmental impact” because their “due diligence” in November 2021 neglected the construction materials.

CWF Ltd has not been “managed responsibly” by Algihaz, a reputable company, but has been allowed to make repeated serious and comical errors without apparent consequences.

Walshaw Moor is the internationally renowned inspiration for the Brontë sisters. Algihaz will not here “preserve the cultural heritage of the communities in which we invest”.

  1. The proposal should be redesigned in the light of the granite. It must then pass through a non-statutory consultation so that the people of the UK can give the proposal intelligent consideration. Walshaw Moor is not a “local moor”. It is internationally designated as SPA and SAC, and internationally renowned as the Brontë Moor.

A new Scoping Report must be published and consulted, and that Scoping Report must be free of the astonishing errors that blight its predecessor, and which will prove so damaging to the reputation of Algihaz should this matter ever come to judicial review.

A new PEIR must then be published, and it must be subject to Statutory Consultation so that the expert public can check it. These consultations are essential, because all of the problems with the rock laid out here were discovered by the public, never by CWF Ltd (and their consultants) and never by Algihaz Holding.

The proposal may then win the trust of the British people, who are being asked to consider the industrialisation of an internationally designated SPA and SAC and the internationally renowned Brontë Moor.

The proposal may then also be fit for examination by the Planning Inspectorate, acting for the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.

  1. Alternatively, Algihaz, a reputable company, may decide to cease their generous investment in CWF Ltd, who have consistently betrayed the trust of Algihaz by publishing false and sometimes dangerous statements, which the public have had to correct in all four iterations brought to consultation (September 2023, April 2025, September 2025, April 2026). CWF Ltd have been sent extensive notifications of these incorrect statements in the PEIR, and the Planning Inspectorate has confirmed receipt of these notifications. An extensive account of the incompetence of CWF Ltd throughout the process has been submitted. Algihaz should study these accounts and notifications prior to any further investment so they can assess the damage to date and mitigate further damage to their reputation if the proposal passes to examination and judicial review.
  2. It may not be in the interest of Algihaz, a reputable company, to persist with a proposal that has been so incompetent. Algihaz has lost the trust of the communities. They may lose the trust of the Planning Inspectorate and the UK Government.
  3. The reputation of the UK onshore wind industry must be protected. It may not be in the national interest for a proposal as incompetent as Calderdale Energy Park to proceed to examination. Relationships with essential foreign investors are inevitably damaged when UK management of the investment is exposed as incompetent, yet further exposure of CWF Ltd incompetence across multiple chapters is inevitable at examination.
  4. The UK and Saudi Arabia have been leaders in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Thanks to the energetic leadership of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia are well ahead of the UK in specifying areas for their 30 by 30 commitment. Walshaw Moor is an SPA and SAC and so a vital anchor for the UK’s attempts to meet a target that we like to believe we led. His Majesty the King has sponsored a Pennine Gateway (inexplicably absent from the PEIR though elegantly summarised at Scoping) to the natural wonders of Walshaw Moor, which his advisors Natural England describe as connecting nature-depleted Bradford, Britain’s youngest city, to Brontë Country. In the interests of the 30 by 30 commitments of Saudi Arabia and the UK, it should be made clear that the poor reception of the Calderdale Energy Park proposal on the SAC, SPA and world renowned Brontë Moor has been caused by the incompetent performance of Algihaz and their British consultants and not (in the divisive rhetoric of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer) by “bats and newts”. British and Saudi people are united in their 30 by 30 commitments.
  5. Public confidence in the Net Zero policy will be undermined by the scale of the incompetence of the Calderdale Energy Park proposal, which would be England’s largest onshore wind farm and is on world-famous ground. Because of the fame of the site that Algihaz have chosen, this incompetence is certain to become more widely advertised at examination, and judicial review, unless the proposal is redesigned and then properly consulted. This advertisement of manifest incompetence, under examination by PINS, and perhaps in court at judicial review, is likely to diminish the world-wide reputation of Algihaz Holding.

Nick MacKinnon, Editor WTRG

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This is the 59th in a series of guest blogs originally based on the 65 wind turbines which Richard Bannister planned to have erected on Walshaw Moor. 

The developers canned their original 65 wind turbines, quite possibly in response to the public humiliation of having their so-called ‘plan’ publicly shown to be damaging, irrational and probably unlawful. They came back with a plan for 42 wind turbines and the amazing Nick MacKinnon and friends ridiculed that so-called plan. Now the developers have brought forward a 34-turbine revision – the series continues. 

To see all the blogs – click here.

 

 

 

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