Finding & Fixing Planning Compliance Problems

After acquiring a third-party-managed operational wind farm, the owner discovered significant planning and environmental non-compliances.

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Challenge

Multiple concurrent risks: ecology (habitat management, bird/bat monitoring), noise, shadow flicker, and planning/forestry licensing exposures-plus potential legal challenges threatening operations.

Solution

Prepared and implemented an Operational Stage Environmental Management Plan (OSEMP).
Led ecology monitoring (habitats, vantage point and fatality surveys), noise and shadow-flicker campaigns.
Managed compliance/enforcement submissions and coordinated planning applications and forestry (turbulence/mitigatory habitat) licences.
Provided inputs for legal submissions and responses.