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Not only wind farms being given the middle finger.

Court rejects solar farm for wrecking a town’s view, poor consultation.


A five-year fight by the Mudgee council and local landowners against the 10 megawatt (MW) Burrundulla solar project is over, after a New South Wales court knocked the application back on the grounds of its impact on “scenic quality.”

A judge in the NSW Land and Environment Court agreed it was too close to homes, and mitigation factors such as building mounds of earth to hide the solar panels from neighbours and the road into Mudgee would fundamentally change the landscape character.

“The excessive scale of the proposed solar arrays, located on a site that is within a low-lying, visually sensitive rural landscape setting adjoining the main entrance corridor to Mudgee… demonstrates that the development as proposed is not suitable for the site,” said senior commissioner Susan Dixon in her judgement.

“The Council submits that the development of this solar farm will be an alien feature in the relevant setting, and based on my observation at the site view, I agree. The development, whilst permissible, is uncharacteristic and will intrude into the landscap

Put the wind mills & solar farms in the city