Plan for ‘ring of steel’ wind farm rejected

A wind farm which Mountaineering Scotland claimed would form a “ring of steel” around a Galloway hill has been rejected.

Dumfries and Galloway Council refused the tenturbine project in August 2017. Developers then appealed to the Scottish government over the Longburn scheme near Cairnsmore of Carsphairn.

A reporter has now concluded that while it would have economic benefits they did not outweigh the adverse effect on the landscape.

Mountaineering Scotland raised its objection to the project in July 2016.