Hebden Royd Town Council has recently adopted guidelines that it will use when considering wind turbine planning applications.

At the Hebden Royd Town Council meeting on 23 May 2012, the Council approved wind farm guidance from the Strategy and Review Committee meeting on 25 April 2012.

Update Following Calderdale Wind Farm‘s publication of its first scoping report in September 2023, the Full Council recommended the Strategy and Review Committee should review the wind farm guidance. They did at their meeting on Wednesday 18th October 2023 and decided the guidance didn’t need changing.

No wind turbines in Special Protection Area

The guidelines require the Council to refuse applications for wind turbines in the Special Protection Area of moors to the west of Hebden Bridge, and in areas where turbine construction would disturb or destroy peatcover.