Wind - Planning Permission
Certain domestic wind turbines are exempt from planning permission and therefore do not require planning permission. BEO can assess if require permission is required or not. If you do require planning permission, BEO will carry out all necessary paperwork to obtain permission for your turbine.
There are exemptions from planning permission requirements for certain micro-renewable energy technologies, including wind turbines, in the domestic sector since February 2007. Domestic turbines do not need planning permission if they satisfy certain requirements as shown below:
The construction, erection or placing within the curtilage of a house of a wind turbine.
- The turbine shall not be erected on or attached to the house or any building or other structure within its curtilage.
- The total height of the turbine shall not exceed 13 metres.
- The rotor diameter shall not exceed 6 metres.
- The minimum clearance between the lower tip of the rotor and ground level shall not be less than 3 metres.
- The supporting tower shall be a distance of not less than the total structure height (including the blade of the turbine at the highest point of its arc) plus one metre from any party boundary.
- Noise levels must not exceed 43db(A) during normal operation, or in excess of 5db(A) above the background noise, whichever is greater, as measured from the nearest neighbouring inhabited dwelling.
- No more than one turbine shall be erected within the curtilage of a house.
- No such structure shall be constructed, erected or placed forward of the front wall of a house.
- All turbine components shall have a matt, non-reflective finish and the blade shall be made of material that does not deflect telecommunication signals.
- No sign, advertisement or object, not required for the functioning or safety of the turbine shall be attached to or exhibited on the wind turbine.