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Save Straiton for Scotland is a campaign group set up in response to an unprecedented five windfarm applications around the conservation village of Straiton in South Ayrshire. Straiton is where the campaign started, because the proposals would mean the village would be all but surrounded by 130 giant turbines, but it has spread much more widely, to nearby communities which would also suffer – Kirkmichael, Crosshill, Patna and Dalmellington. The campaign group has overwhelming support in the community of Straiton, in the other communities, and in the wider area of this lovely gateway to the Galloway Hills. The campaign group is run by a committee elected at a village meeting in Straiton in February 2013. You can find details of the committee on the Contact page of this site.
You will find many different views on the question of wind power amongst the supporters of this campaign. There are many arguments to be had both for and against, but we are all united in our conviction that the siting of so many giant wind farms in such beautiful countryside, with such rich and varied wildlife, and with such a history of encouraging visitors in order to enjoy actively our beautiful countryside has to be wrong, and that our children and many future generations would lose a priceless heritage if it were permitted to go ahead.
Please consider donating, send us a message of support, or find out more about how you can help: all the links are there in the black bar at the top of this page.
Unsightly landscape blot for completely unproven (or more accurately undeclared) benefits in relation to cost. Only good thing is jobs for Campbeltown. If they really do stack up on cost benefit ratio, put them out to sea!
I read that Campbeltown is only making towers for OFFSHORE windmills so no jobs there from Straiton WFs, only for Spain or Germany. I agree with benefits comment – what? where? and who?
Having visited Straiton and the surrounding area for many years and been overwhelmed by it s natural beauty, I am horrified at this proposal. If this goes ahead the visitors and tourists will go elsewhere, no question.
Have family in the village and spent some of the best years of my life in and around the village and to say I was annoyed when I heard what was going to happen is an understatement. I had a look at what goes in to the making and the transportation of the turbines step by step. You see how much it damages the environment all over the world as well as the cost. You have to wonder why people would think they are good idea.
It will be a very sad day for Straiton if these wind turbines are built. Straiton is a very special area – the views are so beautiful here. I agree with putting wind farms out at sea.
I think we should not allow people to make a lot of money by ruining our countryside. Our Scottish Government should be protecting us from such projects.
Whilst I fully understand the issue for Straiton and support efforts to have the proposed development stopped. I have the wider concern fo the whole of Scotlands countryside and the financial burden on the consumer being imposed by the Scottish parliament and their supporters.
Good day good people I have lived near the village my whole life and I have to say I love it here I have very fond memories and I’m very against the power company’s putting these monsters here. I understand that Scotland is trying to have 100% green energy for power by 2020. I also understand that power companies face a fine by the end of the year if they don’t meet a certain target of energy produced. My opinion is this; I’m not against wind power but only if it is in small farms where it is not going to cause a disruption. However there are many other ways, but my favourite is hydro electricity because it efficient and does not look that bad. What I’m saying is NO TURBINES in Straiton.
i understand that there is a lot of people that say we should go green but there has to be better and cheaper way’s to go about that will not destroy Scotland if it’s about cost and the energy to run homes in Scotland why not make it nuclear power from what i have heard they give out far more power cheaper to build run and maintain than any thing else
Today we received the Keirs Hill Wind Farm newsletter from RES, designed to keep the community informed of their plans.
In it they state that the 17 turbines, which will now be sited in East Ayrshire, could produce enough electricity to power 33,000 homes.
Although the Kerrs Hill Wind Farm may not affect Straiton & Kirkmichael as much as was originally proposed it proves how much electricity could be produced if all the other sites were permitted, effectively turning Straiton into a small Power Station.
In Straiton, Kirkmichael, Crosshill and surrounding area we probably don’t even have 3000 homes, farms and small businesses, On that basis, if you take RES’s calculations into account only 2 or 3 turbines would meet our needs.
I think that everyone agrees that there has to be an answer to our future power demands. But perhaps it should be done in a much fairer and local way, not blighting the countryside with these enormous industrial Wind Farm developments. This would mean we may have to put up with a few turbines – but London and the cities would be ringed by them!
The developers see Straiton as an opportunity to make a lot of money, where they consider they will effect only a small amount of people and opposition.