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Shennanton Wind Farm

Shennanton Wind Farm – Kirkcown

Deadline for Objections: 24th July 2025

A new energy installation has been proposed for the rural landscapes of Dumfries and Galloway—and it’s now open for public consultation. The Shennanton Energy Project (view the full proposal at http://shennanton.object.now) involves multiple industrial-scale components being sited within quiet farmland and environmentally sensitive corridors. Your voice can help ensure that local priorities and environmental standards are upheld.

Shennanton Wind Farm - Kirkcown - Newton Stewart

What Is Being Proposed?

This application describes a multi-faceted energy development comprising:

  • Seven large wind turbines, each reaching up to 180 metres, visible across the valley

  • Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), with all the associated concerns over fire risk and chemical containment

  • medium-scale solar panel installation, covering extensive agricultural land

  • Numerous new access roads, internal service trackscrane hardstanding areassubstations, and underground/overhead cabling

  • Extensive security fencing, lighting, and new vehicle access entrances carved into rural lanes

Key Concerns for the Local Community

Visual & Landscape Impact
The turbines alone would dominate long-distance views from Shennanton, neighbouring villages, and public footpaths—irreversibly changing the character of the area.

Biodiversity & Habitat Risk
The site spans important field margins, hedgerows, small woodland patches, and riparian strips. Construction threatens to disrupt nesting birds, mammals, amphibians, and important pollinator routes.

Water & Drainage Risks
With local burns and tributaries nearby, land disturbance for tracks and foundations carries the danger of sediment runoff, altered drainage patterns, and potential aquifer contamination.

Fire Safety from the BESS Installation
Battery storage systems pose risks of fire and toxic smoke; but the proposal lacks clarity on firewater containment, emergency mitigation plans, or coordination with local fire services.

Traffic, Safety & Community Strain
Deliveries to build turbines, solar arrays, and BESS will rely on narrow rural roads—poorer passing infrastructure, weak verges, limited visibility, and increased safety risk for residents and farm vehicles.

Cumulative Industrialisation
Shennanton would join other existing or proposed energy sites in the region, intensifying the pressure on quiet open landscapes and stretching local emergency services and road safety systems.

Insufficient Consultation & Technical Detail
The planning documents offer little detail on biodiversity mitigation, emergency planning, landscape screening, or post-construction restoration.

Why Your Objection Matters

Although clean energy is important, this development is out of scale for the area and poses avoidable risk to local communities, ecology, and water systems. A strong, detailed response from residents and regular users of the area will significantly influence planning decision-makers.

You Can Take Action—Fast

Submit your formal objection now through our portal. You’ll be guided through key issues — visual impact, habitat protection, road safety, drainage — and can personalise your message before sending it directly to the relevant authority:

Submit Your Objection Here → http://shennanton.object.now

Don’t Miss the Deadline

Public consultation periods close without regard for your response — so it must be submitted before the cut-off date