It took another half dozen years for the wind farm to be erected and commissioned – not least the narrow winding local roads forming an obstruction but in the end with the aid of some £80 million loaned by the Green Investment Bank the wind farm was commissioned.
There were many provisions in so-called ‘Conditions’ which had to be complied with but to date, despite many enquiries and requests for information about, for example, noise measurements, water quality, bird and bat strikes, the relocation of the Black Grouse project, but nothing much has been learned about any of the environmental and ecological impact, adverse or beneficial, of the construction.