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Windsor Hydropower Project - key facts

• Purpose - renewable energy/carbon reduction etc

• Location - Romney Weir, Windsor, U.K.

• First planning application 03/83296/OUT (200kW scheme - outline - no drawings available) permitted February 2004

• 04/01807/REM - reserved matters (persuant to Outline permission 03/83296)

• Second application 08/01217/FULL (300kW scheme) deferred at 9/7/2008 RBWM planning meeting

• Second application 08/01217/FULL (300kW scheme) permitted at 6/8/2008 RBWM planning meeting

• Equipment takes up two of the ten weir gates at Romney Weir

• May be noisy

• May be visually intrusive

• May restrict flood water flow

• This is a commercial proposal (Government subsidy?)

• Applicant advises that weir is

•     'significantly oversized compared with other weirs'

•     'an effect enhanced by the recent installation of the Jubilee bypass channel.'

•     'A reduction of two gates ..... is unlikely to compromise the ability of the weir'

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