Industry celebrates as High Court rejects wind farm buffer zone

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Test case upholds complaint from RWE Npower Renewables that Milton Keynes Council acted unlawfully with turbine buffer zone restrictions

Wind energy developers are celebrating today after the High Court ruled that Milton Keynes Borough Council's attempts to impose a 'buffer zone' for new wind farm projects were unlawful. In what had...

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