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Article from West Wales News Review, March 18th 2014 reporting on the recent Nantyrast public meeting.
Category: Local News

Wind woes continue to spread over north Carmarthenshire. Public meetings to tell local people about the scale of turbines intended for Nantyrast, Rhandirmwyn and Tyllwyd, Cwrt y Cadno, are packed but quiet, as the seated rows take in the implications of masts 480 feet high.

The latest venue, yesterday March 17th, was in the village primary school at Cilycwm, some three miles down the Tywi valley from Rhandirmwyn. About 70 people jammed into a classroom to hear Sir David Lewis, former Lord Mayor of the City of London, outline the planning and environmental objections to a 36-turbine wind power ‘station’ above the upper Cothi and upper Tywi valleys..

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Current Local Planning Concerns:
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