TAN 8 is key to wind farm spread (Daily Post article)  

The increasing number of applications for consent to the development of wind farms has become a significant political issue in North and Mid Wales.  Last May, almost 2,000 people travelled from Montgomeryshire to the Welsh Assembly building in Cardiff to show their concern over proposals to erect hundreds of turbines, with associated pylons, transmission lines and other infrastructure, across Mid Wales.  It was one of the biggest political demonstrations ever seen in Cardiff Bay. The reason why the Welsh uplands have been targeted for so much wind farm development is straightforward.  It is the policy of the Welsh Government (“WG”) to encourage onshore wind farm development in the so-called “strategic search areas” identified by its planning document, Technical Advice Note 8 (“TAN 8”). Those strategic search areas, in many parts of  Wales, coincide with Forestry Commission...