Documents

The evidence, in one place

We believe an informed community is the strongest community. Everything we say is backed by public sources — here they are, so you can check for yourself. This page will grow as the proposal develops and campaign resources are published.

Developer & official

• Vattenfall — Ray II project page

  The developer's own description: up to 20 turbines, up to 230 m to blade tip, battery storage, grid connection to Fourstones and around a 35-year operating life.

• Vattenfall — existing Ray Wind Farm

  Details of the 16-turbine scheme operating since 2017 — the baseline against which Ray II's scale should be judged.

• Vattenfall press release — early-stage assessment (2026)

  The announcement that early studies had begun, with capacity figures and the schedule of local drop-in events.

• National Policy Statement for Energy (EN-1, 2025)

  The government policy the Secretary of State applies to large onshore wind schemes, including the rules that brought onshore wind over 100 MW back into the national consenting regime from 31 December 2025.

The planning process

• Planning Inspectorate — National Infrastructure Consenting

  Where NSIPs are registered and examined. Once Ray II is submitted, its documents and the register for Interested Parties will appear here.

• Coming soon

  Ray II scoping & environmental documents. Vattenfall's environmental scoping report and Environmental Statement will be published as the application is prepared. We will link them here and summarise the key findings.

Independent evidence & expert views

• Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust — position on wind farms

  The GWCT is a conservation research charity with more than 50 years of hands-on upland experience. Its position is measured — it is not against wind power — but it warns that large upland wind farms can harm the very wildlife the moors are known for. Soaring birds of prey such as eagles, harriers and buzzards face a high collision risk and tend to avoid turbines, and research links wind farms to falling numbers of curlew and golden plover as nesting and feeding ground is lost. Its central warning speaks directly to Ray II: planning weighs each wind farm on its own, with no requirement to assess the cumulative impact of several schemes across a whole landscape. With Ray II proposed right beside the existing Ray farm, and others nearby, that gap matters here.

Campaign resources

• Soon

  Scale factsheet (one page). A printable side-by-side of Ray I and Ray II with the height comparison, for noticeboards and doorsteps.

• Soon

  How to register as an Interested Party. A plain-English, step-by-step guide to having your say when the application opens, including what makes an objection carry weight.

• Soon

  Objection points & template. The material planning grounds you can raise — landscape, cumulative impact, amenity, safety, peat — written so you can make them in your own words.