Four out of the nine projects to be decided by the new £10m quango, the Infrastructure Planning Commission are in Wales, including the proposed wind farms in Brechfa and Llanllwni. The German owned RWE Innogy or it's subsidiaries (Airtricity and RES UK) is the company behind each project.
It will be interesting to see how the process works and how much public concern, and support, for that matter, will be taken into account. As the idea is to 'fast track' application I presume the most efficient way to do this will be to side-step the often opposing views of local residents.
The quango may be short lived as the Tories have vowed to abolish it should they come to power..I think that may have something to do with the traditional influence of the lobbying countryside alliance, etc.
The only benefit I can see is that the dubious Carmarthenshire Planning Department will not be making the decision
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