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Well, happily, the Conwy is right where nature intended, flowing within her banks and supporting her delicate ecosystem. Hopefully she’s safe for now, but there’s no certainty to that.
The news that RWE have withdrawn their recent planning application has spread to a range of media outlets. The BBC carried several reports and John Harold Director of the Snowdonia Society featured on Good Afternoon Wales (41mins in) …
There have been a large number of objectors to the scheme, and recently those from within the National Park themselves have come to light
In common with the Senior Ecologist the National Parks Tree Officer has serious concerns about the proposed Conwy Falls HEP scheme. The problem lies with the incredibly restrictive CMS (construction method statement) the developer had proposed in order to convince the National Park that serious environmental damage will not occur.
The Conwy Falls HEP scheme was refused at it’s first try because the application didn’t hold enough information or visuals on the likely impact to the landscape …
Well the SNPA ecologist has now reported. You won’t find this document online, despite it being a public document it hasn’t been published …
So it has happened again. RWE have resubmitted the planning application for a hydroelectric power station on the Afon Conwy …
Save the Conwy have received a reply from Justin Albert (Director National Trust Wales) … From what we can tell it is the same reply that everyone who wrote received regardless of the nature of their concerns. We also received a slightly edited version of this response from Dame Helen Ghosh (Director General) …