RE: Freehold Land at Appledore6 Jul 2021 18:04
I see The East has covered some of what I wanted add but thought I'd post this anyway.
It's a post I was penning this morning before I had to rush out. Was looking for somewhere to guage the heights of surrounding land at the time so cut and pasted it till I could finish it later. It's now later. :)
Acerage wise, it would appear they have plenty of land for such a use. But, imo, there would be too many factors that would go against such a proposal. Firstly, which parts of the unused land, ie. not buildings, quays and car parks, would actually be suitable given the topography. The yard is on the leeward side of the surrounding hills to the prevailing winds and obviously is down at sea level. Not massive hills, approx 50m at most, according to this map.
https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/maps/iu/United-Kingdom/
But turbines would need to be of a size to comfortably clear them to be effective. Also the proximity to the village, that relies predominantly on tourism, plus any immediate neighbouring residences might also be an issue.
The area boarders ANOB's and a SSSI at Northam Burrows. So if they were of a size to make them of any use would be quite visable to all of the above. There are quite a number of existing turbines across the estuary on hills surrounding Barnstaple but these are outside of the ANOB, I believe.
What they do have, though, is some quite nice south facing roof space above the dry dock building, and others.