Met mast planning application

The planning application for the anemometry mast has been submitted to Fife Council's development services. Any wind project of this scale needs a full year's wind speed data, which this mast will collect. There was some concern locally when the application went in, as it was submitted in the name of Richard Black, the landowner and was for a period of five years, rather than the one year for which the data is actually required. This is standard practice for this kind of application: it is easier to put the landowner down as the applicant, rather than have to copy all the correspondence to them; it's also sensible to apply for more time than you need, in case the project over-runs at all.

We can reassure everyone that the project is still very much a Newburgh Community Trust project, run by and for the community.