Labour would lift onshore wind ban

Local residents will lose the ability to veto new wind farms under Labour’s plan to lift a ban on onshore turbines, Sir Keir Starmer has said. “We have to have a mechanism where we can move forward because otherwise you get to a situation where everybody says, ‘There ought to be more renewables, onshore wind, but I just don’t want it near me’,” Starmer told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. He promised “amendments to planning regulations to ensure that not only do we lift the ban on onshore wind, but we [also] work with local communities” on what should be built where. But asked if that meant no more local vetoes, he said: “Yes, there has to come a point where if we’re going to move forward… we don’t have some individual vetoes across the whole of the country”. To send feedback, e-mail piers.wehner@eg.co.uk or tweet @PiersWehner or @EGPropertyNews Image © Bruntwood/Unify Energy