{"id":175925,"date":"2025-06-11T14:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175925\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:52:10","slug":"our-wonderful-mid-wales-is-going-to-be-ruined-by-200metre-turbines-llandrindod-wells-mayor-fears-after-windfarm-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175925\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOur wonderful Mid Wales is going to be ruined by 200metre turbines,\u201d Llandrindod Wells Mayor fears after windfarm meetings."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/37088524-453e-457d-aeef-1d96313c15cb.jpg\"   alt=\"Llandrindod Wells Mayor Councillor Steve Deeks-D'Silva\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Llandrindod Wells Mayor Councillor Steve Deeks-D&#8217;Silva<\/p>\n<p> Llandrindod Wells Councillor Steve Deeks-D\u2019Silva said a recent meeting about wind turbine proposals for town and community councillors \u2018wasn\u2019t particularly happy or fruitful\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Held at Hundred House Community Centre, the meeting was for communities that would be affected by plans for turbines and pylons in the Aberedw area.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Deeks-D\u2019Silva and Councillor Jamie Jones also attended a separate event at the Wyeside in Builth Wells with Bute Energy representatives<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Deeks-D\u2019Silva\u2019s pessimism was added to by Councillor Jamie Jones who said: \u201cThe whole area is just going to be turned into turbine and pylon hell \u2013 I did not have anything positive to take away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair told Llandrindod Wells Town Council that the representatives from Bute Energy were telling councillors how much money they would get if the turbines and pylons go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Deeks-D\u2019Silva added; \u201cThey had slide shows and they were telling us how they will save Mid Wales, thanks to community money pots and a social contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were one or two councillors that were quite up for it but the majority, especially those representing the smaller community councils, were very much against it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came away with the impression that our wonderful Mid Wales is going to be ruined by 200 metre turbines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Jones added; \u201cMost of the other community councils seemed dead against it, Cregina will get surrounded by giant turbines and their feedback was \u2018you are going to devastate our little community\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole area is just going to be turned into turbine and pylon hell \u2013 I did not have anything positive to take away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Jones said he suggested Bute Energy set up a training college in Mid Wales offering a lot of<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Chris Owen (Blue) said it is about taking control and not allowing these companies to come in and ride roughshod over the area.<\/p>\n<p>But Councillor David Markinson added: \u201cI think the decision has already been made and what is going on is just pure theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Llandrindod Wells Mayor Councillor Steve Deeks-D&#8217;Silva Llandrindod Wells Councillor Steve Deeks-D\u2019Silva said a recent meeting about wind turbine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,728,471,4884,379,12630,12,285,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-175925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-farming","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-local-hubs","13":"tag-mid-wales","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114665301179107399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}