Moray Council’s planning chairman is encouraging residents to have their say on the consultation on windfarm policy.
Douglas Ross said it was important that as many people as possible gave their views on the authority’s draft document containing updated guidance on dealing with planning applications for onshore wind turbines.
The planning committee wanted to impose a moratorium as members felt it would be “inconsistent” to accept new applications in the meantime – but the Scottish Government rejected that claim earlier this week.
Anti-windfarm campaigners said the decision made the SNP government seem like a dictatorship.
The Moray public still have until September 14 to have their say on the draft guidelines.
Mr Ross, a Tory councillor for Fochabers-Lhanbryde, said yesterday: “Community councils have already been meeting to discuss this. I would encourage everyone to have their say.”
He added: “The SNP government seem more interested in meeting their 100% green renewables target than they are in listening to the views of local people.
“It is quite a lengthy document that the Moray public have to read and respond to, but hopefully residents can make it to the events organised across Moray.”
Feedback will be relayed to councillors before the final guidance document is approved.
Copies of the draft guidance and the accompanying landscape-capacity study can be viewed online and paper copies are available at libraries and council access points.
Drop-in exhibitions have been arranged for four venues in early September. They will be at Fleming Hall at Aberlour on September 4; Elgin Town Hall on September 5; the Longmore Hall at Keith on September 6; and Forres Town Hall on September 10.