Communities - News Bulletin

Norfolk village’s council tax rise to pay for wind farm battle (Norwich Evening News)
A parish council has increased its precept by almost 50pc to help pay for costs incurred in exploring the facts around a contentious wind farm application

Prize for The Big Shed (Perthshire Advertiser)
The Big Shed at Lawers on Loch Tay-side has won the Carbon Trust Scotland Low Carbon Building Awards 2013 for new-build property

Split develops in battle to stop wind turbines (Diss Express)
Pro group formed to counter anti group

Wind Farms: A Noisy Neighbor? (Renewable Energy World)

Forum launched to help optimise wind farm community spin-offs (John O'Groat Journal)
Initiative to pull together views on fund delivery in Caithness

Wind farm community bids will now be charged (South Wales Evening Post)
A fee will be charged for applications for community funds paid from a wind farm in the upper Neath Valley

Victory for Brontës as turbines scheme a write-off (Yorkshire Post)
Landscapes of the imagination

Gen Community install first mutually owned solar PV panels on household in fuel poverty (Co-operative News)
South Wales